# Senior Data Platform Engineer

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc. is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and maintain reliable, scalable, and observable data workflow orchestration solutions. The role supports data engineering, analytics, and operational use cases and collaborates with data engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders to deliver efficient, secure, production-ready workflows. Responsibilities The Software Engineer shall be responsible for creating and maintaining data workflows and automation pipelines using Apache Airflow This role focuses on building reliable, scalable, and observable workflow orchestration solutions that support data engineering, analytics, and operational use cases The engineer will collaborate closely with data engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders to ensure workflows are efficient, secure, and production ready Skills Active TS/SCI w/Polygraph REQUIRED 5 years of experience as a software engineer Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline + 2 additional years of experience as a software engineer may be substituted for a degree Experience using the Linux CLI and Linux tools Experience developing Bash scripts to automate manual processes Recent software deve

- **Id**: 3785750
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-consulting-solutions-senior-data-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Annapolis Junction, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T03:01:24Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T09:20:50Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-05T09:20:50Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2242
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4450999
- **Name**: Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Domain**: shieldconsulting.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-consulting-solutions>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 205000
- **Max**: 215000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215000

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **containerd** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T03:21:45Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-05T09:20:50Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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