Senior Data Engineer

Description Join Leidos and help shape the future of geospatial intelligence! We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Systems Engineer to support the Maru Program with our Intelligence Community customer. If you're passionate about solving complex technical challenges, thrive in a fast-paced Agile environment, and enjoy collaborating with high-performing teams to deliver mission-critical capabilities, this is your opportunity to make a direct impact on national security.

What You'll DoThe Senior Data Engineer will lead the design and implementation of a scalable, cloud-native data architecture supporting large-scale operational and analytical workloads. This role will provide technical leadership for the development of hybrid analytical query capability, integrating relational databases, object storage, lakehouse technologies, and distributed query engines.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience designing modern data platforms and can make architecture decisions around data storage, ingestion, modeling, partitioning, cataloging, governance, and query performance.

Please note Gaithersburg, MD is the program's primary work location.

Clearance Level Required:

Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead the architecture and implementation of ahybrid analytical query platformsupporting large-scale operational and analytical data.

Design and implement moderndata lakehouse architecturesusing object storage, relational databases, and distributed analytical technologies.

Develop scalablebatch and streaming data pipelinesfor ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and delivery of data.

Design data models, partitioning strategies, indexing approaches, catalogs, and query architectures optimized for large datasets.

IntegratePostgreSQL/Auroratransactional data with analytical and object-storage platforms.

Design and optimize distributed query capabilities using technologies such asTrino/Prestoor equivalent.

Develop solutions usingAmazon S3, Apache Iceberg, Redshift, and other modern cloud data services.

Support data governance, metadata management, lineage, access controls, and security requirements.

Design and deploy containerized data services within cloud-native environments.

Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, design reviews, and mentoring engineers to implementing the data platform.

Troubleshoot complex data, database, query-performance, infrastructure, and integration issues.

Required Qualifications:

US citizenship is required per contract.12+ years of relevant software, data engineering, or data architecture experience, with demonstrated progression into senior technical or architecture responsibilities.

Expert-level experience designing and implementinglarge-scale data architectures, lakehouses, or analytical data platforms.

Strong hands-on experience withSQL and Python.

Strong experience withPostgreSQL and/or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.Experience withAmazon S3and object-storage-based data architectures.

Hands-on experience with modern lakehouse technologies such asApache Iceberg, Databricks/Delta Lake, Snowflake, Redshift, or equivalent.

Experience designinghybrid architecturespanning relational, columnar, object-storage, and distributed analytical systems.

Experience with distributed query engines such asTrino/Prestoor equivalent technologies.

Experience buildingbatch and/or streaming data pipelinesusing technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, or equivalent.

Strong understanding ofdata modeling, partitioning, indexing, cataloging, schema evolution, and query optimization.

Experience withDocker/containerized servicesand modern cloud-native architectures.

Experience withInfrastructure as Code and Git-based CI/CD.Strong understanding of data security, access controls, governance, and protecting sensitive data.

PreferredQualifications:

Experience withAWS-managed data services, particularly S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redshift, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, and related services.

Experience withKubernetesand container orchestration.

Experience with data catalogs and metadata platforms such asOpenMetadata, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or equivalent.

Experience working withgeospatial, telemetry, operational, or other high-volume datasets.

Experience designing platforms supporting bothinteractive queries and large-scale analytical workloads.

Experience supporting production data platforms in classified, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other high-security environments.

Experience providing technical directions to multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Key TechnologiesCritical:

SQL, Python, PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg/lakehouse architecture, distributed analytical querying, Trino/Presto, data modeling, query optimization

Strongly Desired:

Redshift, Kafka, Spark, Airflow/Dagster/dbt, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Git-based CI/CDNice to

Have:

OpenMetadata/Glue Data Catalog, Flink, Databricks/Delta Lake, Snowflake, geospatial data experience#NSBAIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

October 1, 2026For U.S.

Positions:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.