Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Required

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, cloud architecture, data engineering, or related technical disciplines, including significant experience leading complex technical initiatives.
• Understands the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture, and its application in the context of Iceberg/Trino.
• Understands technical considerations for operating Petabyte scale Iceberg warehouses including data pipelines, and data cataloging.
• Demonstrated experience architecting or overseeing large-scale, distributed enterprise data systems, including experience with end-to-end ownership of vendor data onboarding, ETL, storage, governance, and access layers.
• Hands-on depth with open-source ETL and data lakehouse technologies, including Apache NiFi (ingestion/routing/provenance), Apache Spark (processing/transformation), Apache Iceberg (storage), and Trino (query/access layer).
• Experience with OpenMetadata or comparable tools (such as Datahub, Alation, etc...) for cataloging, lineage, governance, and data quality metrics.
• Experience building usage analytics and Grafana dashboards that help customers measure the value and return on investment of individual vendor data feeds.
• Experience designing automated data quality evaluation processes that evaluate new feeds at onboarding and continuously monitor completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and schema stability.
• Strong understanding of fine-grained access control, including attribute-based and field-level security enforced by user entitlements, classification levels, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized data platforms on Kubernetes across Azure and AWS, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, high availability, and security hardening.
• Proven technical leadership across engineering teams, with the ability to set architectural standards and serve as the primary technical liaison to customer stakeholders.
• Broad technical understanding across the following disciplines with hands on experience with at least two: