Data Lake Engineer

Prescient Edge is seeking a Data Lake Engineer to support a Federal Government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable Data Lake architectures to support structured and unstructured data ingestion, ensuring efficient data access and retrieval.
• Configure and manage the integration interface between the Data Lake and the managed knowledge graph platform (Stardog), including SPARQL endpoint access, metadata federation, and catalog alignment.
• Follow access control policies and usage scope.
• Confirm compliance with access policies on a quarterly basis and document the results in the Data Governance & Compliance Report.
• Optimize ETL pipelines for high-volume data transformation, ensuring compliance with DoD IL-4/IL-5 security standards
• Implement storage tiering strategies and access controls, ensuring data is properly classified, retained, and accessed per DoD governance requirements.
• Submit the Data Lake Performance & Optimization Report, detailing ingestion efficiency, access control improvements, and storage utilization metrics.