Senior Data Engineer

Role Overview

We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts, and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help improve data intelligence pipelines serving both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations and document media exploitation for the Department of War (DoW) and the broader Intelligence Community (IC).

What You Will Do

You will design, develop, and optimize scalable data management solutions supporting advanced analytics and AI/ML workloads. You will build and maintain Elasticsearch and graph-based data platforms that enable efficient storage, discovery, and analysis of complex hierarchical data.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will play a critical role in developing a future state AI-managed DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) and DIA-NDOC’s mission. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and infrastructure teams to deploy, operate, and optimize Elasticsearch and graph database services in a Kubernetes environment using cloud-native technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field and 12–15 years of relevant experience, or Master’s with 10–13 years of experience.
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph.
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch architecture, index design, mappings, analyzers, and query optimization.
• Graph databases such as JanusGraph, Neo4j, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, or Memgraph.
• Data modeling for hierarchical and highly connected datasets.
• Large-scale ETL/ELT pipeline development.
• Kubernetes deployment and operations for stateful data services.
• Distributed storage systems and high-volume data ingestion.
• Python or Java for data engineering and automation.

Benefits

• Generous PTO plus 11 Federal Holidays
• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program