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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Flow Systems Engineer - **Company:** Peraton Inc - **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States - **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $216,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, JIRA, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Flow Control, Network Planning and Design, Raw Data, Software Requirements Analysis, Data Streaming, Systems Architecture, Data Processing, Data Storage Technologies, High Performance Computing, Data Management - **Published:** July 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9048717/data-flow-systems-engineer ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in a qualified engineering field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus fifteen (15) years of relevant systems engineering experience, OR + Master's degree or PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus thirteen (13) years of systems engineering experience, OR + High School Diploma or GED plus nineteen (19) years of general systems engineering experience * Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. ## Description Technical SETA support for MPO intel analysis and data processing, tool modernization, high performance computing (HPC) and analytic systems engineering. Peraton is hiring a skilled Data Flow Systems Engineer (SE) that has experience planning for and managing data storage solutions. The SE will support the data flow team. This program is cutting edge and includes everything from test planning and execution, architecture design and prototyping, and vendor outreach and collaboration support. The program is tactically important to the national security of the United States and the work on these missions are frequently recognized for their results. Effective management of data routing is a critical task necessary for collected raw data to be transformed into actionable and reliable intelligence information in a timely fashion while simultaneously ensuring data integrity, fidelity and policy conformance. The selected Systems Engineer will provide support that includes customer service, dataflow paths, organize dataflow implementation, identify ways to improve dataflow implementation and modernization efforts, and prioritize the customer's needs based on larger strategic priorities. The Systems Engineer will: * Provide support to a data flow and routing solutions (DFRS) systems engineering team to include data flow planning and implementation support across the government sponsor's organization and across the Intelligence Community. * Plan and Orchestrate data management activities, including coordination of security tasks, execution of required metadata enrichment tasks, and automated data routing tasks are executed in a timely and accurate manner. * Provide overall system engineering expertise in architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design and/or implementation, or testing for the program. * Analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architecture to develop system requirements specifications. * Assist government data movement plans by recommending system flow options, evaluating alternative approaches and by performing feasibility studies. * Document/diagram interfacing systems. * Manage enterprise data movement requirements through Jira ticket queues. #AJCM #MDFSP ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Data Governance in the Era of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1622-data-governance-in-the-era-of-ai) - [Python-Based Data Streaming Pipelines Within Minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1233-python-based-data-streaming-pipelines-within-minutes) - [Bringing Clarity to Event Streams: Enabling Analytics and AI Through Rich Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1616-bringing-clarity-to-event-streams-enabling-analytics-and-ai-through-rich-metadata) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) ## Related Articles - [Software Engineer Career: Things You Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/143-software-engineer-career-things-you-should-know) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard)