Data Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team working out of Falls Church, VA. This position offers hybrid and remote flexibility. The Data Engineer will design, build, and optimize robust data pipelines and infrastructure to ensure the reliability, accessibility, and quality of data for analytics and mission‑critical applications. The ideal candidate will leverage extensive experience with data engineering principles, Dev Sec Ops  best practices, Test Driven Development (TDD), and User Centered Design (UCD) to rapidly develop and deliver first‑class, customer‑centric software solutions.

They will utilize leading languages and frameworks, including Python (FastAPI), AWS, and Rancher Kubernetes, to automate testing and ensure delivered software meets and exceeds customer needs, while collaborating within a dedicated team.

• Using Dev Sec Ops  best practices to rapidly develop and deliver first‑class solutions for a DoD customer
• Developing software using leading languages and frameworks including Python (FastAPI), AWS, and Rancher Kubernetes
• Leveraging Test Driven Development and User Centered Design best practices to automate testing and ensure delivered software meets and exceeds customer needs
• Applying software design best practices to identify and analyze potential solutions, generate design diagrams, and participate in technical exchange meetings to discuss with the team and customer stakeholders
• Embracing a shared responsibility for system security
• Performing threat modeling to identify and mitigate system security threats, implementing protective and preventive security measures continuously throughout the software development lifecycle
• Continuously engaging with project teams to deliver quality products
• Participating in daily standups, sprint planning/review meetings, discovery and framing workshops, and customer demo sessions

• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and at least 3 years professional experience working as part of an Agile team using Dev Ops practices and modern programming languages and frameworks to develop and engineer data‑related services and applications to cloud platforms
• Experience developing data‑focused solutions, including designing and implementing OpenAPI compliant data schemas and REST APIs, implementing data persistence and query logic using Object Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries and SQL, and implementing data validation business rules
• Experience developing AWS cloud solutions with a specific focus on data services such as S3, RDS, and EMR
• US Citizenship required, must be clearable up to a Secret security clearance

• M.S. in Computer Science or related
• Experience with AI/ML
• Experience with Kubernetes (Rancher RKE2, AWS EKS) and microservice architectures
• Experience with data engineering and big data technologies such as Apache Airflow, Trino, and AWS EMR
• Experience with NIST Risk Management Framework and security accreditation process and tasks

Salary range: $ - $, commensurate with experience.

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