Data Engineer

DNI is seeking a highly qualified Data Engineer to support the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) under Air Force JWAC IT Services (JITS) Task Order 2. The Data Engineer will design, implement, secure, monitor, and optimize cloud-native data engineering solutions that support data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), agentic services, hosted models, and large language model (LLM) optimization. The role integrates data engineering, FinOps, Zero Trust security, and AI/ML infrastructure responsibilities within a single position.

This position is expected to work onsite at JWAC in Dahlgren, Virginia, supporting a TS/SCI/SAP environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, troubleshoot, and tune end-to-end cloud-native data engineering solutions using AWS platform and software services.
• Develop and administer data ingestion, ETL, integration, transformation, validation, publication, and lifecycle-management workflows.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from databases, web services, message traffic, data dumps, documents, and other sources.
• Design data architectures and managed data stores that support analytics, feature engineering, model training, and real-time inference.
• Develop solutions using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon DynamoDB.
• Create REST APIs and