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Join a dynamic team dedicated to national security through cutting-edge technology. Since 1968, MANTECH has led in delivering advanced solutions to government intelligence, the Department of Defense, and Federal Civilian sectors. Dive into innovation in Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, IT, Data Analytics and Software Development. Your journey to impactful work and rapid growth starts now-be extraordinary at MANTECH!\nMANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Lead Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data, AI, and Automation team in Herndon, VA. This is a hybrid position, requiring 2-3 days a week onsite.\nIn this pivotal role, you will bridge the gap between complex raw data and actionable business intelligence, ensuring that our data is standardized, reliable, and ready for reporting, AI/ML engineering, and other downstream applications. You will also guide the transformation of our legacy data warehouse to a modern, data lakehouse platform.\nResponsibilities include but are not limited to:\nEnterprise Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines integrating disparate enterprise business systems and API connections into a unified enterprise data model.\nData Warehousing & Modeling: Develop/update data warehouse schema to align with our evolving business requirements for reporting, analytics, and automation.\nTooling Strategy: Act as a subject matter expert in the selection and implementation of next-generation analytics platforms and data engineering tools.\nLakehouse & Semantic Architecture: Drive the migration toward a modern data lakehouse and assist analytics engineers with implementation of a universal semantic data model.\nData Quality & Observability Infrastructure: Implement automated data validation, lineage tracking, and end-to-end observability to ensure high data fidelity and pipeline reliability across the enterprise platform.\nProactive Alerting & Executive Intelligence: Support analytics engineers to implement automated orchestration logic and alerting triggers that notify business leaders in real time when key performance metrics cross predefined limits.\nTeam Mentorship & Support: Guide teammates on modern data engineering practices and architect data flows optimized for consumption by machine learning models and AI applications.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of data engineering experience, including at least 2+ years leading engineering initiatives or architectural design for enterprise systems.\nProven experience integrating common enterprise systems via database connectors or APIs.\nHands-on experience working with a data lakehouse architecture and proven knowledge of tradeoffs associated with data modeling approaches.\nMastery in writing complex, optimized SQL queries and managing relational database schemas.\nExperience with modern cloud data platforms, transformation tools, and code-driven orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).\nExperience with common software tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub) for CI/CD and version control of data infrastructure.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nProficiency in Python and PySpark for data engineering, data manipulation, API consumption, and automation scripts.\nExperience using Informatica for API and database extraction.\nExperience implementing automated data quality, monitoring, and lineage tooling (e.g., Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, Soda, or Databricks Unity Catalog).\nExperience building data pipelines for machine learning, natural language processing, or vector database/RAG workflows.\nExperience with Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).\nClearance Requirements:\nU.S. Citizen \nPhysical Requirements:\nMust be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.\nNeeds to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.\nFrequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.\nThe projected compensation range for this position is $128,800.00-$214,500.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. 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