Key skills
PythonSQLAIMLETLSnowflakeDatabricksSparkAirflowdbtAWSAzureGCPTerraformVersion ControlCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and extend a greenfield data and AI platform, developing and maintaining data pipelines and products essential for federal background investigation work.
Responsibilities:
- Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code that turns raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products
- Extend the platform following the architecture, patterns, and standards set by the lead platform engineer
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines that promote work into the accredited production environment
- Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance; troubleshoot and resolve issues
- Apply data governance, cataloging, and access-control practices within the established framework
- Support the data science and ML team by delivering the governed datasets and tooling they need
- Operate within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints in day-to-day engineering
- Collaborate closely with the engineering team and maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes
Requirements:
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance; active clearance preferred
- 4 years building and maintaining production data pipelines
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development and sound analytical data modeling
- Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP fine) and version control / CI/CD workflows
- Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
- 5 years work experience with BS/BA
- Databricks experience (or a comparable lakehouse stack: Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake)
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads
- Experience in regulated or accredited environments: FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling
- Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher)
- Government or defense contracting experience
- Familiarity with data governance / cataloging tooling (e.g., Unity Catalog) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt)