Data Engineer; w​/active Secret

Data Engineer (w/ active Secret)

Location:

Norfolk, VA
Clearance:
Secret
Type:
Full-time, Onsite
Salary Range: $87,000 - $112,000

Critical Solutions is seeking a Data Engineer to support our federal customer.

The Data Engineer designs, builds, integrates, and sustains secure enterprise data solutions that enable reliable analytics, reporting, operational insight, and informed decision‑making. The position develops scalable data pipelines, integrates data from diverse sources, improves data quality and availability, and supports cloud and on‑premises platforms in a mission‑critical environment. The Data Engineer works closely with business intelligence, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and program teams to translate operational requirements into governed, supportable, and reusable data products;

and will contribute to modernization activities in an Agile/Dev Ops operating culture.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that collect, transform, validate, and deliver structured and unstructured data from enterprise systems, applications, APIs, logs, files, and databases.
• Build and optimize data models, schemas, tables, views, and curated data sets that support analytics, business intelligence, operational reporting, and downstream application requirements.
• Develop data‑processing solutions using SQL, Python, and other approved technologies; apply reusable engineering patterns, source control, peer review, and documented release practices.
• Integrate cloud and on‑premises data platforms while supporting secure data movement, interoperability, availability, retention, and performance across hybrid enterprise environments.
• Implement automated data‑quality checks, reconciliation controls, monitoring, alerting, and exception handling to identify incomplete, inaccurate, duplicated, delayed, or failed data flows.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data discrepancies, performance degradation, access issues, and integration defects; perform root‑cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with analysts, business intelligence developers, data owners, system administrators, and mission stakeholders to define data requirements, source‑to‑target mappings, transformation rules, service expectations, and acceptance criteria.
• Apply data governance, security, privacy, least‑privilege access, auditability, and records‑retention requirements throughout the data lifecycle in coordination with cybersecurity and compliance teams.
• Support platform upgrades, data migrations, modernization initiatives, capacity planning, and performance tuning while minimizing disruption to production services.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, lineage documentation, interface specifications, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Participate in Agile planning, backlog refinement, technical reviews, demonstrations, incident response, and after‑hours support activities when required to sustain mission‑critical services.

• Must be a U.S. citizen and possess an active DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.
• Minimum B.S Degree with relevant experience in data engineering, computer science, information systems, software engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline, with at least four years of relevant experience; additional directly related experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• Must possess and maintain an IAT Level II certification that satisfies applicable DoD cybersecurity workforce requirements.
• Must be located in either San Diego, California; the Hampton Roads, Virginia area or Jacksonville,…