[Remote] Senior Data Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security company and enterprise IT provider supporting government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The Senior Data Platform Engineer will build and extend a greenfield data and AI platform for federal background investigations, developing governed data pipelines, transformations, and data products while supporting infrastructure, data quality, compliance, and machine learning needs.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code that turns raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products
• Extend the platform following the architecture, patterns, and standards set by the lead platform engineer
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines that promote work into the accredited production environment
• Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance; troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Apply data governance, cataloging, and access-control practices within the established framework
• Support the data science and ML team by delivering the governed datasets and tooling they need
• Operate within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints in day-to-day engineering
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team and maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes

Skills

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance
• 4 years building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development and sound analytical data modeling
• Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP fine) and version control / CI/CD workflows
• Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
• 5 years work experience with BS/BA
• Dependable, self-directed execution with minimal oversight
• Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
• Clear documentation and knowledge-sharing
• Eagerness to grow ownership and learn the compliance environment
• Active clearance preferred
• Databricks experience (or a comparable lakehouse stack: Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake)
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads
• Experience in regulated or accredited environments: FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling
• Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher)
• Government or defense contracting experience
• Familiarity with data governance / cataloging tooling (e.g., Unity • Catalog) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt)

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life insurance.
• Health savings account (HSA).
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Parental leave.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

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