Principal Engineer Data-19914

Description

The Defense Systems sector's Strategic Deterrence Systems division is hiring a Principal Data Engineer based in Roy, UT.

The role supports the Sentinel program by building production-ready data pipelines and reusable components that domain and platform teams use to ingest, transform, publish and run trusted data.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance is not required to start, but the role requires a Secret clearance type.

Travel is 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines and reusable components for ingesting, transforming and publishing data.
• Help create shared connectors, templates and configuration-driven patterns for common systems of record and repeatable implementation approaches.
• Work with platform engineers, domain teams and stakeholders to understand their needs and turn them into solid pipelines or reusable components.
• Make sure your pipelines and components are secure, fast, testable and observable, with suitable logging, metrics and error handling.
• Write documentation, examples and proof-of-concept implementations that help teams adopt common patterns and deliver faster.
• Work with Data Quality, Governance & Compliance to build the right checks and controls into pipelines and components.
• Help design pipelines that fit cleanly with orchestration, monitoring, incident response and CI/CD processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years, or a PhD with 1+ years. Four additional years of relevant experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance, and to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period as the company determines based on business need.
• Strong hands-on experience building pipelines for ingestion, transformation and publishing.
• Experience building and maintaining reusable data engineering components or common patterns, such as ingestion modules, transformation utilities, shared configuration or logging patterns.
• Familiarity with integrating data from enterprise systems of record into analytical or operational pipelines.
• Solid software engineering skills, including Git, code reviews, automated testing and documentation.
• Strong understanding of databases, pipeline orchestration and pipeline scripting languages.
• Experience adding logging, metrics and error handling to pipelines to support observability and troubleshooting.
• Ability to work with platform engineers, domain teams and stakeholders to turn requirements into solid pipelines or reusable components.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and a record of working well in cross-functional teams.
• Preferred: An active U.S. Government Secret clearance, at minimum, with a closed investigation completed within the last 6 years.
• Preferred: A Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related STEM field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years, or a PhD with 1+ years.
• Preferred: Experience contributing to shared data engineering frameworks or building domain-specific pipelines and data products on common platform patterns.
• Preferred: Experience building pipelines on modern data platforms such as Apache Spark/Delta Lake, Databricks or Snowflake, including jobs, notebooks and integration with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
• Preferred: Understanding of modeling data engineering workflows as DAGs and running them in production.
• Preferred: Familiarity with streaming and batch data processing.
• Preferred: Exposure to data quality and governance practices and how they shape pipeline design.
• Preferred: Experience writing examples, documentation or internal enablement materials that help engineers adopt common patterns.

Conditions

Location: Roy, UT.

Travel: 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary range: $98,400.00 to $147,600.00. Final pay depends on factors such as the scope of the role, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus. Vice President and Director roles may also be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and personal business.
• Annual bonuses that reward individual contributions and share company results.