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# Mid Data Engineer

- **Company:** Prescient Edge
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Backup Devices, Data Architecture, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Digital Technology, NoSQL, Reverse Engineering, SQL Databases, High Performance Computing, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5866906418

## About the Role

Desired experiences:

 * At least 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
 * Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
 * Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
 * Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
 * Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

Desired education:

 * Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
 * An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 12 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Security Clearance:

 * Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY.

## Description

* Designs, implements, and operates data management systems for intelligence needs.
 * Designs how data will be stored, accessed, used, integrated, and managed by different data regimes and digital systems.
 * Works with data users to determine, create, and populate optimal data architectures, structures, and systems.
 * Plans, designs, and optimizes data throughput and query performance.
 * Participates in the selection of backend database technologies (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, HPC, etc.), their configuration and utilization, and the optimization of the full data pipeline infrastructure to support the actual content, volume, ETL, and periodicity of data to support the intended kinds of queries and analysis to match expected responsiveness.
 * Supports defense analytical requirements with enhanced scientific/engineering research, capability limitation analysis, reverse engineering analysis/characterizations, facility, and vulnerability assessments.
 * Analysis and production include, but is not limited to, complex foreign electronic systems, subsystems, facilities and/or equipment and can emphasize one or more area(s) pertaining to electric power, microelectronics, electronic hardware, circuits, sensors, guidance and control, signals, electromagnetic, electro-optical (EO)/infrared (IR) and/or similar areas associated with current and projected electronic systems and/or subsystems. This includes, but is not limited to, electrical engineering and sub-disciplines of computer, electronic, optical, and power engineering.