Staff Data Engineer chez Lockheed Martin

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Rotary and Mission Systems

XECTQS:C4ISR VF E&T

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E9814:Data Engineer Stf

Systems Engineering: Design and Verification

Experienced Professional

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Full-Time

What We’re Doing
Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to think big, innovate, perform with excellence, and build incredible products? If you have the passion, drive, and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you. Come and join our team!

Lockheed Martin’s Rotary and Mission Systems’ C4ISR team is looking for a proven and experienced Data Engineer to support a one-of-a-kind project Cross Business Area campaign that exemplifies our commitment to our OneLM Strategy.

The Work
- Overview – We are delivering a production‑grade, AWS‑based Data Lake, Digital Framework, and seamless data integration for a non‑DoD customer. The Data Engineer will design, build, and operate the data pipelines that ingest, transform, catalog, and serve Lockheed Martin and third‑party data to AI/ML, Unified HMI, and command‑and‑control (C2) applications. This role works closely with the AWS Infrastructure Architect, AI/ML Engineers, Software Factory, MBSE team (Cameo → DOORS NEXT), and the Advisory Board to ensure data quality, security, and performance across the end‑to‑end mission workflow (Detection → Prediction → Response → Recovery).
- Data Lake Architecture – Design the AWS Data Lake to store raw, curated, and analytics‑ready data. Define data‑zone concepts (raw, landing, trusted, analytics) and enforce lifecycle policies (retention, archival, deletion)
- Ingestion & Streaming – Build high‑throughput ingestion pipelines and implement schema-on-write and schema-on-read strategies.
- Other Functions Data transformation, catalog & metadata management, and security & governance


Who We Are
The DSO Team within our Digital Production Environment is building the next‑generation command‑and‑control operator workspace that fuses AI/ML insights, real‑time mission data, and a seamless AWS‑based data‑lake backend. We are seeking a UX Designer who can translate complex sensor and analytics streams into intuitive, mission‑focused visual experiences for a non‑DoD customer. You will work closely with system architects, software engineers, AI/ML specialists, and the Advisory Board to ensure the interface supports the full Detection → Prediction → Response → Recovery workflow.

Who You Are
• A self-starter
• Experienced DSO Engineer
• An engineer committed to delivering high quality, cutting edge technology to be used by our customers and allies across the country and world

Why Join Us
Joining our team offers you the opportunity to support a company and a team where your contributions are valued and you can develop your skills and expertise.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online.

Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life both in and outside of work, along with competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits.

6 + years professional data‑engineering experience; ≥3 years designing and operating AWS‑native data lakes for mission‑critical or high‑volume workloads.
 B.S. Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field (M.S. preferred).
 AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty (required) and Solutions Architect – Professional (highly desirable).
 Proven experience in SAFe/Agile environments, working with cross‑functional teams (AI/ML, UX, Systems Engineering).

-Deep knowledge of S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Kinesis, MSK, Redshift, Athena, QuickSight, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, KMS
-Hands‑on with AWS Glue, Spark, DBT, Airflow (or Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow)..
-Proficient in Python (PySpark, Boto3), Scala, SQL, and Shell/Bash.
-Experience integrating MBSE data from Cameo → DOORS NEXT into data‑lake pipelines.
-Knowledge of AI/ML data pipelines (SageMaker Feature Store, model‑artifact versioning).

Alabama, Colorado, Pennsylvania

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Huntsville, King of Prussia, Littleton

19406, 35808, 80127, 80921

At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs, and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.

COLORADO SPRINGS-CO, Huntsville-AL, King of Prussia-PA, Littleton-CO

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Full-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work remotely full time at a location other than a Lockheed Martin designated office/job site. Employees may travel to a Lockheed Martin office for periodic meetings.

Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Employee that will telework full-time

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $113,900 - $200,905. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $131,000 - $227,125. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
This position is incentive plan eligible.