**MANTECH** seeks a motivated, career, and customer-oriented **Data Engineer** for a new initiative within the National Capital Region. This effort supports the rapid design, deployment, operation, and sustainment of enterprise-scale AI, data, and mission platform capabilities across a cloud, edge, and classified operational environment

This role supports enterprise data ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics pipeline development. You will ensure that data is AI-ready and optimized for operational deployment across the platform.

+ Design and implement solutions for distributed data processing and streaming architectures.

+ Develop and maintain AI-ready data pipelines and capabilities for multi-source data fusion.

+ Establish and manage processes for data lineage, metadata management, and data governance.

+ Contribute to the implementation and optimization of the Enterprise Data Layer.

+ Build data services using technologies like Spark, Kafka, Trino, and Iceberg for large-scale transformation.

+ 7 or more years of experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT pipeline development, or streaming architectures. Relevant additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

+ Expertise in distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark) and data warehousing concepts.

+ Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for advanced data manipulation and scripting.

+ Experience with data quality assurance, governance, and preparing data for AI/ML models.

+ Proven experience designing, building, securing or monitoring scalable solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Azure Synapse, Databricks, or Azure Security Center).

+ Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

+ Hands-on experience with emerging data technologies like ClickHouse, Iceberg, and/or OpenSearch.

+ Prior experience supporting Intelligence Community data management initiatives.

+ The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.

+ Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.

MANTECH International Corporation considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with MANTECH, please email us at careers@mantech.com and provide your name and contact information.