Chief Data Engineer – Engineer Systems Architect 6
Mission Technologies, a division of HII
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Pyeongtaek • 🇰🇷 South Korea
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💰 $188,370 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopJavaKafkaPythonScalaSparkSQL
About the role
- Define overall data architecture and engineering roadmap
- Evaluate and select technologies (data lakes, warehouses, orchestration tools, ML platforms)
- Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and secure
- Lead design and development of enterprise data pipelines (batch + real-time)
- Optimize performance, storage, and compute resources
- Implement data quality, lineage, and governance frameworks
- Act as technical mentor to senior and mid-level engineers
- Drive best practices in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, and business leaders to enable advanced analytics & ML
- Research emerging tools (lakehouse, streaming, AI-driven data management)
Requirements
- 20+ years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 18+ years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 15+ years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 24 years relevant experience
- Prior leadership in architecting large-scale data platforms
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala)
- Strong background in distributed data systems (Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Kafka, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks)
- Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data warehousing
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data lake/lakehouse architectures
- Knowledge of data governance, security, compliance (especially relevant in DC for government/defense)
- Strong communication and leadership skills- mentoring engineers and working with stakeholders
- Strategic thinking- ability to balance scalability, cost efficiency, and performance
- Able to surge support during 2 exercises per year
Benefits
- best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices
- wellness resources
- employee assistance programs
- Savings Plan Options (401(k))
- financial planning tools
- life insurance
- employee discounts
- paid holidays and paid time off
- tuition reimbursement
- early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data architecturedata engineeringSQLPythonJavaScaladata modelingETLELTdata warehousing
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringstrategic thinking