Data Engineer – Senior
General Program Overview
This program supports a U.S. Naval Aviation organization by delivering advanced data analytics, modeling, and decision-support capabilities that improve aircraft readiness, maintenance planning, and sustainment outcomes. The team works with complex, multi-source data to identify trends, forecast workload and cost drivers, and develop actionable insights that help leaders make better-informed operational and resource decisions.
Work on this program spans data engineering, predictive analytics, logistics and sustainment analysis, and the development of dashboards and analytical tools used to improve mission readiness, reduce delays, and optimize long-term lifecycle costs across aviation platforms.
Role Overview
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and repositories that enable advanced analytics and decision-making. This role ensures data availability, integrity, and automation across complex enterprise systems.
Benefits- Identify and integrate data sources needed to support analytical and business questions
- Design and maintain automated data pipelines and repositories
- Ensure data quality, update frequency, and reliability
- Support analysts and stakeholders by making data accessible and actionable
- Lead or oversee data engineering activities and best practices
- Support enterprise-scale data architecture initiatives
- Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in a related technical field
- 15+ years of professional experience
- SME-level expertise in data engineering, integration, and automation
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 3 investigation
- Experience handling sensitive or controlled data environments
Additional Requirements