[Remote] Data Engineer – Senior

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BDR Solutions, LLC supports the U.S. Federal Government in achieving its mission and goals. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead cloud data engineering initiatives for the IRS, focusing on secure architecture and tenant onboarding within Databricks and AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead workspace architecture, Unity Catalog governance, and cluster policy design for IRS tenant organizations
• Perform tenant discovery and requirements gathering, source profiling, and security classification for new data intake requests
• Develop end-to-end technical designs for tenant onboarding including Data Sharing Agreements and SLA documentation
• Maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and prepare Architecture Review Board (ARB) submissions
• Contribute to tenant onboarding automation, financial operations integration, and ROI reporting
• Deliver tenant training materials and facilitate weekly office hours for IRS program teams
• Support P1/P2 incident response within SLA for tenant-related platform issues
• Provide NIST 800-53 control evidence within 5 business days of IRS audit requests

Skills

• Active MBI – mandatory; candidates in process do NOT qualify
• 8+ years in cloud data engineering; 3–5 years hands-on Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Auto Loader, Genie)
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or advanced equivalent – must be current and in good standing at award
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Data Engineer – Associate or Professional
• Deep experience with medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Delta Lake, and CDC patterns
• Proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL for enterprise pipeline development
• Hands-on AWS: S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Glue, Athena
• Experience with RBAC/ABAC, row-level security, PII column masking
• Familiarity with IRS OneSDLC, FISMA, NIST 800-53, and FedRAMP High
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Lead workspace architecture, Unity Catalog governance, and cluster policy design for IRS tenant organizations
• Perform tenant discovery and requirements gathering, source profiling, and security classification for new data intake requests
• Develop end-to-end technical designs for tenant onboarding including Data Sharing Agreements and SLA documentation
• Maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and prepare Architecture Review Board (ARB) submissions
• Contribute to tenant onboarding automation, financial operations integration, and ROI reporting
• Deliver tenant training materials and facilitate weekly office hours for IRS program teams
• Support P1/P2 incident response within SLA for tenant-related platform issues
• Provide NIST 800-53 control evidence within 5 business days of IRS audit requests
• U.S Citizenship is required
• Current or recent IRS contract experience strongly preferred
• Preferred Tools & Technologies: Terraform, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, Kafka/MSK, dbt, Great Expectations, Splunk/Datadog, Collibra/Alation, AWS Lake Formation, and experience with data mesh or modern data product architectures
• Databricks Ecosystem
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Experience with machine learning pipelines
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks
• Familiarity with real-time streaming systems
• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Data Analytics, Azure Data Engineer)

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