Data Engineer/Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Engineer/Data Scientist

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity:

 

CACI’s growing Agile Digital Solutions Operating Group is searching for a Data Engineer/Data Scientist supporting the modernization and transformation of a large portfolio of enterprise business solutions used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The candidate will be part of a team where complex problem solving, and communication skills are critical to success.
 

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines within Databricks, including Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Metrics tier data models.
• Build normalization and transformation frameworks to standardize disparate datasets for analytics, cybersecurity, and mission operations.           
• Quality, modern, and fully reproducible code using established software engineering practices—including version control, modular design, automated testing, documentation, and CI/CD—to ensure reliability, reusability, and maintainability across data pipelines and Databricks workflows.
•  Develop solutions within a secure cloud-based architecture leveraging Databricks Lakehouse features (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Auto Loader, cluster configuration).
• Manage environment setup, version control, deployment, and CI/CD processes for data pipelines and Databricks apps.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Databricks and enterprise systems through APIs, S3 ingestion endpoints and database connectors.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering, cybersecurity, and product teams to design and implement features that improve data ingestion, metadata management, automation workflows, and platform usability
• Document technical requirements, user stories, and workflow specifications for data integrations and interface development.
• Evaluate and implement push/pull data transfer patterns optimized for NASA’s security, performance, and governance constraints.

Qualifications:

Required: 

•  Reliability cloud solutions‑Experience building scalable data-driven services, data ingestion pipelines, and automation workflows, contributing to high team environments•           
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills in dynamic, multi‑
• Ability to empathetically work with platform customers (software or data engineering teams) to triage and resolve issues, enable self-service, and introduce improvements based on feedback            •
• Ability to collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, platform engineers, cybersecurity, and product stakeholders to support data platform requirements            •
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree            •
• Ability to design and document technical solutions related to continuous integration and continuous deployment            •
• Demonstrated experience working with agile project management tools            •
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a NASA Public Trust background investigation            •

 

Desired:

• Experience supporting the NASA Web Services Operational Environment
• Experience working with industry-standard Enterprise Data Platform applications, such as Databricks, Apache Airflow, or similar technologies
• Experience working on complicated problems and providing solutions that are creative, yet practical and feasible           
• Acts independently and within is a team environment to expose and resolve problems.        
• Experience supporting Federal government project        
• Experience working in a dynamic, multifaceted environment

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What You Can Expect:

 A culture of integrity.