# Staff Data Engineer

Job Title: Staff Data Engineer About the role Pearson Virtual Schools runs online K-12 programs, including Connections Academy and Pearson Online Academy, for students and families across the country. Our data includes some of the most sensitive information there is: student assessment results and records protected under FERPA. As AI tools start working with that data next to our people, the access rules have to be right for both. We're starting a new Data Engineering group, and this is one of its first two hires. You'll design and build how our data is secured and served to AI from the start. That means fine-grained access enforced in the data itself, plus a governed gateway, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), through which AI agents act as the user: same models, same permissions, one security model for people and AI. This is a greenfield, senior technical role. You'll be the go-to expert on data security and AI access, make the key architecture decisions, and mentor the engineers around you. What you'll do Enforce access in the data. Implement per-user and per-location access in BigQuery using row-access policies and column-level masking, so each person sees only the data

- **Id**: 3450257
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pearson-staff-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sri Lanka
- **Countries**: LK
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T05:47:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T02:02:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3771
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Publishing, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 34029
- **Name**: Pearson
- **Domain**: pearson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pearson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 25
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.76
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 18500
- **Max usd**: 44000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 781

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Collibra** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Looker** — Optional: no
- **LookML** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Trino** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T10:34:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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