Data Flow Systems Engineer at Peraton
Fort Meade, MD
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Fort Meade, MD
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role focused on data flow and routing within an Intelligence Community national security program. Day-to-day work involves planning and implementing data movement solutions, coordinating metadata enrichment and automated routing tasks, analyzing system requirements, and managing data movement requests through a ticketing system. Suits an experienced SE with a background in architecture, network design, and data management in classified environments.
Senior level · 15+ years · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $108,178 (middle half $84,682–$137,059). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The job title is 'Data Flow Systems Engineer' — this role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, data routing/management, and network/architecture design. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is the closest SOC match; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is a plausible runner-up given the specialized systems engineering framing.
Location is not stated in the posting. Given the TS/SCI with polygraph requirement and the national security / Intelligence Community context, the role is almost certainly in the Washington, DC metro area (or a similar cleared-work hub), but no city or state is explicitly named.
The clearance requirement is explicitly stated as an active TS/SCI with polygraph — this is a hard gate.
Degree requirement is marked None because the posting offers a high school diploma/GED plus 19 years as a fully equivalent path alongside the bachelor's and master's/PhD options.
Total years minimum is set to 15, reflecting the lowest qualifying experience threshold (bachelor's + 15 years). The posting also accepts 13 years with a master's/PhD or 19 years with a high school diploma.
Jira is the only specific named technology in the posting (used for managing enterprise data movement requirements via ticket queues). All other skills listed are domain capabilities (systems engineering, data flow architecture, requirements analysis, network design) that appear as explicit required responsibilities — they are included as named competency gates rather than generic soft skills, given the posting's explicit framing of them as required engineering disciplines.
The posting is sparse on concrete named tools and technologies beyond Jira; the skills list reflects what is actually named.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering, data flow architecture, network design.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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