Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer / Integration Specialist responsible for designing and optimizing secure enterprise data-ingestion, transformation, and integration capabilities for HQ USSTRATCOM at Offutt AFB.

• Act as senior technical analyst for data engineering, data integration, and enterprise-scale data solutions supporting Command, Control, and Communications (C3) and NC3 modernization and strategic deterrence missions.
• Lead design, development, and optimization of secure, scalable data-ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines supporting testing, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of new C3 and NC3 capabilities.
• Architect real-time and batch data-flow systems to enable data exchange across legacy Department of War (DoW) Nuclear Command-and-Control (NC2) systems, sensors, platforms, and modern cloud environments.
• Integrate structured and unstructured sources into authoritative datasets while ensuring data quality, lineage, governance, and compliance with Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) security requirements.
• Develop and maintain APIs, messaging middleware, schemas, data models, and interface control documents to support system-to-system integration.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, analysts, and integration specialists, supporting growth and consistent engineering practices.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, software developers, modelers, and mission stakeholders to translate operational needs into data-driven technical requirements and architectures.
• Support technology evaluations, experiments, demonstrations, and capability-prototype assessments focused on data-centric solutions and distributed architectures.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation, data-flow diagrams, engineering artifacts, and senior-leader briefings covering findings and recommendations.

• U.S. citizenship and active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility
  , plus eligibility on day one for Nuclear Command and Control – Extremely Sensitive Information (NC2-ESI),
  NATO
  , and Special Access Required (SAR) programs; maintain all required clearances and program eligibilities throughout employment.
• Ability to work full-time onsite
  , 5 days a week
  , at Offutt Air Force Base (AFB) in Offutt AFB, NE
  .
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 6–10 years of progressive experience in data engineering, data integration, or software development, including 3+ years supporting DoW, DoD, or Intelligence Community missions.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and implementing complex ETL/ELT pipelines and integration workflows.
• Strong proficiency in Python
  , Java
  , or comparable enterprise data engineering languages.
• Hands-on experience with streaming and distributed data frameworks:
  Apache Kafka
  , Ni Fi ,
  Spark
  , or similar.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and No
  
  SQL/graph databases
  .
• Proven experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs and gRPC in distributed architectures.
• Experience with cloud technologies (
  AWS, Azure, GCP
  ), hybrid environments,
  Dev Sec Ops pipelines,
  CI/CD
  , Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and containerization (
  Docker
  , Kubernetes
  ).

• Python, Java
• ETL, ELT
• Apache Kafka, NiFi, Spark
• PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• RESTful APIs, gRPC
• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD
• Terraform, Ansible
• Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience supporting USSTRATCOM
  , NC3
  , or strategic C3 modernization efforts.
• Knowledge of data-centric modernization,
  Digital Mission Engineering
  , and Authoritative Sources of Truth frameworks.
• Experience with graph databases (Neo4j, Janus Graph) for modeling complex interdependencies.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality frameworks, and lineage tools.
• Experience working within IL5/IL6 classified environments.