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You will build pipelines and data models that connect operational systems to usable workflows. You will work with users and engineers to establish what the data means, where it can be trusted, and how it should be accessed.\nYou will join a multidisciplinary team within LMI's National Security organization. Work spans technical discovery, rapid prototypes, and selected deployments through initial operational use. The team develops reusable capabilities and transfers them to LMI program or product teams for sustained delivery.\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\nResponsibilities\nInvestigate source systems and data with mission users. Define the entities, relationships, and quality expectations needed for the application.\nBuild ingestion and transformation pipelines for structured data, documents, APIs, and operational records as the use case requires.\nReconcile inconsistent identifiers and schemas, model useful relationships, and document definitions and assumptions.\nImplement quality checks, lineage, freshness monitoring, and access controls so users can understand and trust the data.\nBuild pipelines that can be tested, monitored, rerun, and recovered safely when sources or requirements change.\nPartner with software and AI engineers to serve reliable application data and prepare information for retrieval and analysis.\nSupport initial deployment, resolve data failures, and transfer pipelines, documentation, and operating procedures to the sustaining team.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nStrong SQL and Python skills, with production ownership of ingestion, transformation, and relational data modeling.\nExperience turning inconsistent source data into maintained datasets or data products used by applications or decision-makers.\nExperience with a production orchestration and transformation stack such as Airflow or Dagster and dbt or SQLMesh, or comparable tools.\nExperience with schema changes, data quality testing, lineage, permissions, and diagnosis of failed or incomplete pipelines.\nSoftware engineering practices for data, including version control, automated tests, CI/CD, and reproducible deployment.\nAbility to explain data definitions and limitations, work through ambiguous requirements, and collaborate with application engineers and users.\nDemonstrated use of AI coding tools or agents, with independent review, testing, and security checks of generated code.\nTravel up to 50% for user engagement, deployment support, and forward deployed delivery.\n Active Secret Clearance Required. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Palantir Foundry pipelines and ontology development, Databricks, or comparable enterprise data platforms.\nExperience with Spark or PySpark, event streaming, document ingestion, entity resolution, or semantic modeling.\nExperience with cloud data services, object storage, and containerized workloads in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.\nExperience with defense, intelligence, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, workforce, or autonomy data and the controls governing its use.\nAn active security clearance.\nThe target salary range for this position is $130,000-$190,000.\nThe salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. 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