Lead Data Engineer (National Security)

Location: Remote; U.S. citizenship and a current, active U.S. Government Secret clearance required.

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 per year base salary, with potential benefits and performance-based or other incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global Corporation delivers data insights and technology solutions for customers supporting missions critical to U.S. national interests.

What you will do

• Provide day-to-day technical direction, prioritize tasks, lead code reviews, apply design best practices, and mentor engineers.
• Work with government stakeholders to elicit and translate mission requirements into technical specifications, interface designs, and scalable data models.
• Architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-throughput ETL/ELT workflows in Databricks using Python and SQL.
• Diagnose pipeline bottlenecks, debug complex data workflows, and implement automation to improve reliability and data integrity.
• Collaborate with government product owners, data scientists, data analysts, and technical peers to coordinate sprints and communicate engineering trade-offs.
• Create and maintain documentation for pipeline architecture, code, and configurations.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and a current, active U.S. Government Secret clearance are mandatory; applicants without an active Secret clearance cannot be considered.
• At least 8 years of professional data engineering experience building enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines.
• Experience providing technical mentorship, performing code reviews, and overseeing daily technical tasks for other engineers.
• Hands-on experience designing and optimizing data transformation workflows in Databricks.
• Advanced modular, object-oriented Python/PySpark skills and extensive experience writing, tuning, and optimizing complex SQL queries.
• Experience building functional, user-centric reports and dashboards with modern data visualization tools.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and distributed computing frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern agile and DevOps tools such as GitLab and Jira.
• Experience with DoD, defense, or intelligence community data environments and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and data cataloging frameworks.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Opportunity to support difficult and important national security missions as a trusted technical partner.
• Comprehensive benefits programs for eligible employees.
• Potential performance-based or other incentive compensation for eligible employees.