Lead Data Engineer

About the role

Two Six Technologies is seeking an experienced and motivated Lead Data Engineer for a cross-functional development team advancing mission tracking technology enhanced by artificial intelligence and machine learning. The work will be located in the Arlington, United States office.

Responsibilities

• Partner across teams to design and support the implementation of a seamless, decentralized, and secure data-sharing framework for consistent data exchange across platform instances.
• Work with backend and database teams to align storage strategies across relational, indexing, and specialized time-series engines, balancing fast retrieval with long-term persistence.
• Maintain and align complex, multi-domain data models used across dozens of microservices, ensuring data integrity, strict contract management, and system-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to adapt and scale data systems as computational needs evolve across bare-metal and cloud environments.
• Collaborate on resilient data patterns, such as CQRS and secure store-and-forward pipelines, to support data security, integrity, and strict access controls in a distributed microservices environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with deep expertise in Python and/or Go (Golang) within highly distributed environments.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing relational schemas.

Key facts

• The work will be located in the Arlington, United States office.
• The role focuses on mission tracking technology enhanced by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience.
• Requires 6+ years of professional software development experience and expertise in Python and/or Go (Golang).