Senior Data Developer

 

We are looking to add a Senior Data Developer to our ongoing development, maintenance, and data engineering team. We support the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Data Engineering and Processing (DEAP) project by providing analyses, solutions and maintenance of many processes that ingest financial market data used across multiple CFTC regulatory and analytical systems, including high‑volume, mission‑critical data ingest pipelines.  These processes and the data ingested are critical to the mission of the CFTC. This position requires up to three (3) specific days onsite in the Washington DC facility and two (2) remote teleworking days per week.

 

What You Will Do:

• Serve in a technical lead role providing leadership for a small team of data engineers responsible for development, maintenance, and modernization of multiple DEAP ingest loaders and microservices.
• Work with the customer and Peraton project manager on requirements gathering and task estimation. Collaborate closely with CFTC stakeholders and Peraton project manager to refine ingest rules, validate reporting requirements, and estimate development or remediation tasks.
• This role will require performing routine data operational checks, development and automation of the quality checks.
• Perform daily operational monitoring of high‑volume ingest pipelines and build automated data‑quality and anomaly‑detection workflows.
• Communicate with other departments and internal teams to coordinate requirements, triage ingest failures, and ensure rapid resolution of data, system, and reporting anomalies.
• Ensure reporting entities submit complete and compliant data; identify root causes of rejections and coordinate corrective action with CFTC and external reporting counterparts.
• Support operations and maintenance of ingest systems, including SQL/database performance issues, service restarts, pipeline failures, and AWS resource troubleshooting.
• Conduct analysis of futures, options, swaps, and related regulatory data to validate quality, detect inconsistencies, and ensure accurate transformation into downstream systems.
• Lead code reviews, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to modernization initiatives including migration of legacy loaders to microservices-based architectures.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree or 12 years with a HS Diploma
• Experience working with regulatory data (CFTC or similar), market structure concepts, and reporting workflows is strongly preferred.
• Experience working and automation/development in an AWS environment
• Experience with some or most of: Python, C#, PowerShell, Bash, S3, Redshift, RDS, DMS, SageMaker, QuickSight
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server database; SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS); SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Experience with Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) workflows
• Experience in Microsoft Office Tools and Azure DevOps for Backlog and Sprint management.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Public Trust or other active clearance
• Master’s degree in business, finance, computer science, statistics or related field and 5 years of experience
• Bachelor’s Degree is a plus
• Experience with microservices, distributed data processing, or event‑driven architectures.
• Prior experience supporting high‑volume data pipelines in a regulated environment.
• Experience with troubleshooting ingest failures, rule‑based validation systems, and XML/FIXML transformation workflows.

 

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.