Data Cloud Engineer (Remote)

About this role

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced
Data Cloud Engineer
to support a high-profile Department of Defense modernization initiative. This position offers the opportunity to drive enterprise cloud transformation efforts by designing and implementing scalable, secure, and modern data solutions across Azure and AWS cloud environments supporting mission-critical analytics and decision-making capabilities. This position is
fully remote.
Candidates must hold an
active Secret Clearance
.


Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-based ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure and AWS technologies.
• Build and optimize large-scale data transformation solutions utilizing PySpark and Spark SQL.
• Develop ingestion frameworks supporting structured and unstructured data sources, including relational databases, APIs, JSON, and flat files.
• Implement full and incremental data loading strategies, including Change Data Capture (CDC).
• Design and support enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics-ready environments.
• Establish data quality, governance, and security controls including schema validation, RBAC, lineage tracking, and credential management.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of cloud data pipelines.
• Support CI/CD implementation and automated deployment processes.
• Partner closely with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, and software development teams to support modernization initiatives.
• Ensure solutions remain compliant with DoD security requirements and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale data engineering solutions.
• Strong expertise with PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, and SQL.
• Experience building cloud-native data pipelines in Azure Synapse Ana...