Senior Principal Data Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

Senior Principal Data Engineer designing and delivering data solutions enhancing military decision-making at Iron EagleX. Leading technical teams and collaborating with government Project Manager in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeFort Bragg • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $144,500 - $195,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSAzureCloudETLKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPythonSparkSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deliver advanced data solutions that enhance warfighter readiness and decision-making
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to an engineering team
Leverage expertise in cloud-based data architectures to support mission-critical operations
Recommend tools and capabilities based on research of current environment and knowledge of various resources
Work with client's migration teams to implement strategy and architecture design
Function as Team Lead for a team developing technical deliverables utilizing live data to create visual dashboards
Work with government PM to establish sprint cadence and update status dashboards
Quarterly travel

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of related experience
SQL Database experience
S3/Block Storage integration
Python scripting
3-5 years of experience with non-proprietary big data technologies (Presto, Hive, Spark, Flink, etc) - Presto/Trino is preferred.
3-5 years of experience with demonstrated strength in data lake/warehouse technical architecture, infrastructure components, and ETL/ELT pipelines
3-5 years of experience with workflow management engines (i.e. Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Prefect)
Experience understanding requirements, analyzing data, discovering opportunities, addressing gaps and communicating them to multiple individuals and stakeholders.
3-5 years of experience in software development, infrastructure, or Cloud operations role
Experience with multiple operating systems, including LINUX, UNIX, and Windows-based operation systems
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure
Experience with deploying containerized microservices in Kubernetes infrastructure
Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Competitive pay and paid time off
Full flex work weeks where possible
Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythonPrestoHiveSparkFlinkETLELTAirflowKubernetes

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcommunicationanalysisproblem-solving