Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies.
Position: Senior Data Engineer
Position Location: Tampa, Florida (Downtown) or Joint Base Andrews
Position Description: Data Engineer supports the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines, data models, and analytics platforms.
This position is at the customer site in either Tampa Florida or Joint Base Andrews.
Required Experience:
- Data Pipeline Development: Build, test, and maintain scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines. Support ETL/ELT activities to move data from source systems to analytics environments. Ensure data workflows are reliable, monitored, and well‑documented.
- Data Modeling & Warehousing: Assist in designing and maintaining structured datasets for analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases.
- Help define data models, schemas, and metadata within governed data environments.
- Data Quality & Governance: Perform routine data validation, profiling, and quality checks. Collaborate with senior engineers to implement data governance and security best practices. Contribute to documentation of data flows, lineage, and standards.
- Cloud & Platform Support: Work with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP depending on project) to deploy data assets. Support configuration, optimization, and maintenance of compute and storage resources.
- Collaboration & Delivery: Partner with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to understand data requirements. Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and code reviews. Drive continuous learning and contribute to improving engineering processes.
Education:
- 10 years of experience with MS/MA degree or equivalent experience
- Security Clearance: TS/SCI
Skills Required
- 10 years of experience with a master's degree or equivalent experience
- Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance
- Experience developing and maintaining scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines
- Experience with ETL/ELT workflows, data modeling, data warehousing, and governed data environments
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
What We Do
Altamira Technologies Corporation is a top open source technology company in the national security space. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira provides engineering and analytic services to the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. Altamira focuses on creating innovative solutions that leverage common standards in architecture, data and security, which enables the company to solve complex issues of great importance to the nation while lowering engagement costs through speed of adoption, collaboration, and trust.
