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USAF Data Engineer

CFocus Softwareorporated

Job Location:

Anne Arundel County, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 7 October 2026 (10 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 4 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

cFocus Software seeks a Data Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights MD. This position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance.
Qualifications:

Active TS/SCI clearance
B.S. Computer Science Information Technology or a related field
Experience developing data pipelines ETL processes and enterprise data integration solutions.
Proficiency in SQL and programming or scripting used to ingest transform and validate data.
Experience with data modeling warehouses or lakes and analytical query development.
Ability to implement data quality checks metadata practices and traceable source-to-target mappings.
Experience developing or integrating APIs and troubleshooting data-sharing interfaces.
Experience with automated deployment source control configuration management and testing.
Understanding of data governance access controls and secure handling of mission information.
Ability to monitor pipeline performance resolve failures and maintain clear technical documentation

Duties:

Gather and analyze approved data requirements source characteristics integration dependencies and reporting needs with Government stakeholders.
Assess existing infrastructure and data sources; maintain inventories and identify capability accessibility and data quality gaps.
Design and implement Extract Transform and Load (ETL) processes data structures and integration workflows under approved business intelligence architecture.
Build configure and maintain data warehouse and data lake capabilities in accordance with Government-approved designs and data models.
Develop repeatable ingestion and transformation pipelines to clean standardize validate and prepare data from approved sources.
Implement data quality monitoring and remediation processes; investigate incomplete inconsistent duplicate or invalid data and report corrective actions.
Implement and maintain data tagging and metadata management in accordance with approved standards; document source mappings and transformation lineage.
Develop document test and maintain Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and data-sharing interfaces under approved requirements and interagency agreements.
Optimize authorized data exchange processes and analytical queries; coordinate interoperability and interface changes with mission partners and technical teams.
Develop queries and datasets supporting reports interactive dashboards and Government-approved KPIs including permitted fusion of external agency data.
Prepare approved training datasets and support data cleaning transformation and feature engineering in collaboration with data scientists.
Implement data security and access controls through DevSecOps practices consistent with approved system security plans and authorization boundaries.
Use automated pipelines version control and configuration management for data platform changes; test before Government review and authorized production deployment.
Monitor pipeline and business intelligence environment health and performance; investigate failures maintain alerts and provide operational status reports.
Maintain technical designs data dictionaries interface specifications procedures and as-built documentation; support approved governance improvements and user training.