Senior Technical Engineer

Senior Technical Engineer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Part time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Part-Time On-Call

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Outside Continental US

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The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Senior Technical Engineer to drive enterprise-level innovation, transformation, and delivery in the areas of Data Fusion, Engineering, and Advanced Analytics. This high-impact position serves as a hands-on leader and strategic advisor for major Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and commercial modernization initiatives.

You will support mission-critical programs by designing and executing data-centric architectures, enabling scalable AI/ML platforms, and unifying siloed data systems into operational decision engines. Your role will span complex engagements including digital modernization, real-time analytics, geospatial intelligence, and enterprise transformation at scale.

This is a unique opportunity to shape and deliver technical solutions that directly support national security objectives and drive measurable outcomes for some of CACI’s most strategic customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical strategy, architecture, and execution for classified and unclassified programs.
• Serve as the Data and Analytics Lead on key initiatives—providing hands-on modernizing large legacy systems, deploying data science pipelines, and enabling mission data actioning.
• Spearhead AI/ML integration, including data science methodologies, model deployment using MBSE best practices and tools.
• Act as SME to resolve complex system and data outages; remediate production crises that others could not.
• Analyze and coordinate across multiple projects and teams in support of interoperability of data streams through custom-built or repurpose of operational frameworks.
• Provide Proposal and Capture support writing and reviewing content for pursuits as assigned.
• Mentor cross-functional teams, from junior analysts to senior engineers, while documenting SOPs, roadmaps, and architectural standards that foster reuse and sustainability.
• Coordinate with engineering and mission teams for design, implementation, and scaling of cloud-first architectures (AWS, Azure, hybrid) using platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, Kafka, Docker, and serverless technologies.
• Execute and Implement Agile and DevSecOps principles, with a strong focus on mission-critical SLA and OSA alignment.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience in Senior Engineering roles.
• Generate and maintain project schedules, briefs, technical reports and briefs in alignment with customer statement of work and requirements deliverables.
• Proven record leading and delivering through the SDLC process for mission operations in customer spaces through to the ATO process.
• Hands on experience with building and modernizing complex data systems, analytics modernization, and enterprise cloud transformation across federal and commercial sectors.
• Experience supporting the DoD and Intelligence Community, including prior GS-level TDY or strategic advisory roles.
• Deep expertise in data strategy, governance, modeling, AI/ML, geospatial/temporal analytics, and real-time streaming systems.
• Experience leading programs and working on GWACs or IDIQs.
• Outstanding technical writing and communication skills; known for mentoring, documentation, and collaborative leadership.
• Active TS/SCI required.
• Certifications required Security + CE, CASP

Desired:

• Recognized thought leadership in data science, engineering, or government IT strategy (e.g., publications, speaking engagements).
• Experience building data products or platforms for across DoD, IC, State, and Federal sectors across multiple domains and networks.
• Knowledge of Army, AirForce and Maritime mission systems.
• Familiarity with IC standards, FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST frameworks, and zero trust architectures.
• Azure 900 and above, AWS Associate or higher
• Operating system RHEL /LINUX certifications for developer

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