Federal Senior Data Engineer

Horizon3.ai is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and own the data platform supporting business-critical pipelines, analytics, and reporting. The role focuses on expanding a multi-region data platform, with particular attention to Federal workloads and the product portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain business-critical data pipelines, including data ingestion and AWS Glue/Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau
• Build and operate core data infrastructure: the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform, deployed across multiple regions
• Help evaluate and shape our warehouse strategy, including lakehouse platforms such as Databricks
• Define and evolve batch or event-driven contracts between producer and consumer teams, reasoning through batch vs. streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant/multi-region trade-offs
• Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models
• Build observability into pipelines and platform components
• Drive work across producer and consumer teams, communicate clearly, and own outcomes end to end

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering craft: clean, correct, maintainable code with solid data-structure and problem-solving fundamentals
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data architecture: pipeline and platform design, batch vs. streaming, CDC, event contracts, multi-tenant and multi-region trade-offs, reprocessing, and observability
• Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills, including designing schemas for a warehouse your team owns
• Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end
• Strong collaboration and ownership across dependent teams
• Experience and ability to work within US Government enclaves from FedRAMP through TS cloud environments
• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and distributed data processing (e.g., AWS Glue, Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark-based pipelines)
• Tableau or a comparable BI platform
• SQL and Python
• Workflow orchestration tooling such as Apache Airflow, Dagster or similar
• US Citizen with/ability to gain and maintain a TS Security clearance