AWS Solutions Architect/Developer

Peraton Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking to add an experienced AWS Solutions Architect/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) 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.
• Serve as a member of an Agile team to provide engineering support and maintenance of services and processes that migrate and promote data and algorithms to the AWS cloud environment and supporting cloud databases.
• Design, code, test and implement AWS cloud-based solutions
• Work with the customer and Peraton team on requirements gathering and task estimation.
• Perform routine data checks, code development and quality checks.
• Perform database planning, design and implementation
• Perform systems analysis, design and implementation
• Perform code reviews and cloud deployments
• Provide regular status updates on progress both within the Agile framework and via weekly status reporting.

Work Location: Washington, DC

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline and at least 8 years of experience or a minimum of 6 years experience with a Master’s degree or Minimum of 3 years with PhD
• Familiar with tools such as AWS, Lambda, S3, Git, Azure DevOps, EC2, Step Function, Hive, Glue, Spectrum, Athena, S3, SNS SQS
• Strong experience with databases and programming with SQL, Python, XML, C# .Net
• Strong experience in analyzing and designing data migration strategies to load data from on-perm data warehouse (SQL Server) to cloud data warehouse (Redshift and RDS).
• Experience in ETL process using AWS resources
• Working experience using XML data exchange message formats, required modifications, or extensions
• AWS Solutions Architect certified
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Ability to work on-site at least 3 days a week in Washington, DC

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Public Trust or other active clearance
• Master’s degree in business, finance, computer science, statistics or related field and 6 years of experience
• 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.

Target Salary Range

$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.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

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