Lead Data Engineer

Employment Type: FTE Temp to Perm

Key Responsibilities (Upon Award)

• Lead technical engagement with customers and stakeholders, translating mission and business needs into actionable technical solutions and maintaining alignment throughout delivery.

• Serve as the lead technical authority on the project, making architecture decisions, reviewing code, and ensuring alignment with DevSecOps best practices.

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, and IAM. Implement secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

• Oversee the development of front-end and back-end components, ensuring system performance, security, and maintainability.

• Implement and manage continuous integration and deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI) for automated testing, security scans, and deployments.

• Ensure adherence to FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST 800-53 security standards. Collaborate with security teams to achieve and maintain ATO. Integrate encryption, access control, audit logging, and compliance monitoring into systems.

• Guide and mentor engineers (mid- and junior-level) in best practices for cloud engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile delivery.

• Collaborate with product owners, designers, researchers, and stakeholders in Agile ceremonies. Advocate for iterative delivery, test automation, and secure-by-design principles.

• Represent the engineering team in technical discussions with government stakeholders, ensuring transparency, progress updates, and risk mitigation plans.

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role and 3 years designing and delivering solutions in AWS environments.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required

• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools.

• Deep knowledge of DevSecOps practices, containerization and secure software development.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus.

• Proficient in one or more backend languages and frontend technologies.

• Familiarity with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, Zero Trust, and federal ATO processes.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.

• Experience managing Agile software development teams and delivering technical solutions

• Proven ability to guide team collaboration, customer engagement, and requirement translation between technical and business teams

• Strategic thinker with strong interpersonal and change management skills, able to align team performance with long-term goals

• Experience leading customer engagement to define requirements, manage expectations, and ensure alignment between technical delivery and stakeholder goals

• U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams on federal cloud modernization projects, ideally within financial regulatory agencies.

• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).

• Experience integrating with logging, security scanning, and compliance tools used in federal systems.

• Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum) and human-centered design environments.

• Understanding of data governance, cloud cost optimization, and backup/recovery best practices.