Principal Software Engineer

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MITRE’s Enterprise Business Systems and Operations Division (EBSOD) focuses on delivering and supporting business systems and processes to enable our leaders and employees to deliver impact, make data driven business decisions, and find opportunities. The EBSOD Data and Integrations team delivers and supports the enterprise data platform, data warehouse, data integrations, and APIs that enable mission-critical business reports, analytics, and system integrations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Data and Integration Group Lead/Principal will lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise business system data warehousing and data integration initiatives to modernize (scalable, extensible, reliable, and secure) the organization's data platform to enable reporting and analytics and data integration/exchanges in support of corporate activity. In addition, they will manage the team responsible for designing, building, and supporting modern data pipelines, data warehouses, and integration services while driving cloud adoption, automation, and engineering best practices - to include hands on development, guidance, and day-to-day direction.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Define and execute the roadmap for a modern enterprise data warehouse and data integrations in support of MITRE and Finance vision and strategy.
• Lead the migration from legacy data platforms to modern, cloud-based data architectures, with minimal business disruption.
• Direct and oversee the daily design, development, security, and operations of scalable, extensible data warehouses, data lakes, and data integration solutions.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for the data warehouse team, establishing priorities, removing delivery obstacles, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality execution of strategic and operational initiatives - to include hands on delivery.
• Establish and enforce architectural vision and standards, governance, and best practices for data modeling, ETL/ELT, metadata management, and data lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption of modern data engineering technologies, including cloud-native services, automation, orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Partner with business leaders, application teams, Business Analytics, HR, and Enterprise Technology to translate business requirements into data solutions.
• Ensure data platforms meet performance, reliability, security, compliance, and availability requirements.
• Oversee vendor relationships, technology evaluations, and implementation of new tools and platforms supporting the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Promote Agile delivery practices, Dev Ops, CI/CD, automated testing, and continuous improvement throughout the data engineering lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure secure data handling, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Champion innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending improvements…