Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Intrepid, an SPA Company, brings more than 20 years of experience supporting the Department of Defense and U.S. Government, consistently setting the standard for excellence in the federal marketplace. Committed to advancing the mission of the U.S. Warfighter, Intrepid leverages technological superiority to deliver innovative solutions across air, space, land, and sea domains. We are proud to foster a collaborative, dynamic work environment, offering competitive compensation and an industry-leading 401k contribution.

Our team is built through merit and achievement, and we’re always looking for the best and brightest to join us in our growth. We treat our people like family, we are mission-focused, and we give back! Join us today.

Our Financial Management & Business Analysis Portfolio supports the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC); the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) Financial Management and Comptroller (FM&C); the U.S. Army Financial Management Command (USAFMCOM); the Defense Health Agency (DHA); and many other DoD customers. We ensure the Army FM systems and processes are modernized and integrated to provide a complete range of financial and cost information needed for the Army to conduct business transactions, provide accountability to the public, and to support performance reporting and decision making.

We provide effective functional systems support, user technical support, training support, and governance support of the Army's modernized and deployed FM domain ERP systems (GFEBS / GFEBS-SA / GCSS-A (Finance)), ensuring technological capabilities maturation and evolution aligns with Army and FM domain goals and objectives.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team to support the Defense Health Agency Chief Data and Analytics Office in building an enterprise data orchestration layer for the Military Health System. The team will be bringing together information from diverse defense and federal systems to build scalable data pipelines, APIs, and data products that improve how critical health data is integrated, accessed, and used.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-ready data pipelines and data products using Spark (Python/SQL) in a Databricks environment.
• Lead the integration and transformation of complex data from diverse DoW and federal health systems and sources into reliable, reusable data products.
• Design scalable approaches for data ingestion, integration, and exchange, including API-based integrations and services.
• Establish and promote reusable data engineering patterns, standards, and best practices that improve consistency, scalability, and maintainability across data products.
• Provide technical guidance on data architecture, pipeline design, data modeling, integration approaches, and engineering practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production workflows and data pipelines, identifying performance, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Define and implement data validation, quality, and governance practices that improve the reliability and usability of data products.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and data integration challenges, identify root causes, and drive sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, and customer stakeholders to translate complex data needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, helping teams navigate complex or unfamiliar technical challenges.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve engineering tools, processes, and patterns and help drive their adoption across the team.
• Take ownership of complex technical areas and help maintain engineering quality, consistency,…