Peraton
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Remote Data Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 13, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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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.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance; active clearance preferred.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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).
Soft Skills
- 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.
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