Data Engineer

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify, before applying, that you meet the minimum requirements of the position.

The Senior Data Engineer will lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced data engineering solutions supporting the Army Vantage program within the Army PEO EIS organization. This role requires technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate across functional and technical teams to meet the Army's enterprise data management goals.

Data Engineering Leadership: Lead a team in the full lifecycle of data engineering activities, including requirements definition, architecture, design, implementation, testing, and operational support. Provide technical direction for developing data products and ensuring alignment with program goals and objectives.

Data Integration and Transformation: Define and develop techniques to integrate, consolidate, and structure data for analytical use while ensuring data security and governance. Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to modern, enterprise level solutions. Inform on data aggregation techniques and associated security implications.

Strategic Decision Support: Prepare strategic and tactical recommendations for senior leadership, offering data driven insights and rationale for decision making. Assess data architecture, design, and implementation impacts associated with new or changing requirements. Collaboration and

Stakeholder Engagement: Interface with functional data experts to understand and replicate authoritative business logic and data transformations. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment of data engineering practices with program and organizational goals.

Technical Expertise: Develop data architecture and design products using tools such as R, Oracle, or other data manipulation products. Leverage structured and unstructured data with advanced ingestion practices to enable analytics workflows.
Implement and manage cloud-based data and database technologies to support scalability and operational efficiency.

Compliance and Standards: Ensure adherence to Department of Defense (DoD) data standards, policies, and directives, with a focus on data protection for sensitive information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI).

Education and Requirements:

SME Level

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, with at least 5 years in the Army logistics domain.
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty.

Senior Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ Years of experience in data management, including ETL processes.
• AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty (or equivalent cloud-based analytics certification) and/or
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) by DAMA International.

Journeyman Level

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in data management, including ETL processes.
• CompTIA Data+

Current and active Secret security clearance

Location flexible with preference to Ft. Eustis or Fort Belvoir

JANUS strives to provide opportunities for career growth through training and development. We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products. As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards. JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work™

JANUS Research Group provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e-mailing: Alisha Pollard, Director of Human Resources at alisha.pollard@janusresearch.com or calling (706) 364-9100. Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within JANUS Research