Principal Data Engineer – Mission Data Pipelines

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BOOST LLC is a dynamic management consulting firm that offers an array of government-compliant back-office solutions to support our teaming partners within the Gov Con space. We are partnering with our client, Galaxia Technologies, to hire a Principal Data Engineer – Mission Data Pipelines (El Segundo, CA) to play a key role in advancing the USSF’s Warp Core data platform.

At Galaxia Technologies, they lead the way for secure, mission-ready software solutions that advance the nation’s most critical objectives. Their teams combine deep technical expertise, disciplined execution, and an unwavering commitment to mission assurance—delivering systems that enable information dominance, operational continuity, and strategic decision advantage.

They operate at the crossroads of enterprise innovation and national defense, supporting customers across space, cyber, and intelligence domains.

Galaxia Technologies is seeking a Principal Data Engineer – Mission Data Pipelines to design, implement, and sustain robust mission data pipelines supporting the Department of the Air Force’s USSF’s Warp Core data platform.

In this highly visible role, you’ll partner with the Space Systems Command (SSC) and multi-agency stakeholders to engineer automated, secure, and reliable data flows that strengthen interoperability across mission systems. This position blends data architecture, security compliance, and software engineering—building the backbone that enables real-time mission insight and decision advantage.

This role is based in El Segundo, CA with a focus on supporting operations within the USSF’s Warp Core data platform.

• Analyze mission workflows and USSF’s Warp Core data platform system architectures to identify critical mission data artifacts.
• Define the structure, semantics, and lifecycle of USSF’s Warp Core data platform mission data products.
• Ensure data standards support interoperability, traceability, and reuse across mission components.
• Serve as the technical liaison defining data exchange interfaces between USSF’s Warp Core data platform and external mission systems.
• Collaborate with mission partners to define schema, formats, data transports, and integration expectations.
• Document interface specifications to ensure sustained system interoperability and mission assurance.

• Support the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process by defining secure technical data exchanges.
• Contribute to compliance documentation including data message definitions, PPSM (Ports, Protocols, and Services Management) entries, and topology diagrams.
• Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure data pipelines meet DoD security and RMF requirements.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable ETL and data transformation pipelines for ingesting, persisting, and distributing mission-relevant data.
• Use low-code/no-code orchestration technologies (e.g., Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow) and custom tools to deliver automated solutions.
• Develop and maintain transformation logic in Python, leveraging libraries such as Pandas and Num Py as needed.
• Implement API endpoints and service interfaces (REST or platform-native) for downstream mission use.
• Ensure validation, normalization, and transformation processes maintain data accuracy and integrity.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to maintain pipeline reliability and performance at scale.
• Deliver fully operational pipelines enabling automated ingestion and dissemination of USSF’s Warp Core data platform mission data.
• Develop technical documentation detailing purpose, source systems, transformation logic, and access methods.
• Produce RMF artifacts…