Data Engineer / Architect (Security Clearance Required)
Infinitive Inc · Ashburn, VA
$170,000–$215,000
Jul 19, 2026
Ashburn, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering and architecture role at a consultancy, focused on designing and building scalable data platforms on Databricks running in AWS or Azure cloud environments. Day-to-day work covers ETL pipeline development, data governance, Unity Catalog management, and performance optimization, with an expectation to mentor other engineers. Suits an experienced data architect holding a Databricks Certified Professional credential and an active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $170,000–$215,000
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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 $166,452 (middle half $130,866–$200,954). 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 (8)
The posting is titled 'Data Engineer/Architect' and the responsibilities span both pipeline/ETL engineering and data architecture design — the role maps most closely to 15-1243 (Database Architects), with 15-1252 (Software Developers) as a plausible runner-up given the Spark application development emphasis.
Clearance requirement: the posting states candidates must possess an active DoD Secret OR Top Secret clearance. The minimum gate is Secret, so the clearance requirement is set to Secret.
Hadoop is listed in the required skills section alongside Spark as a 'big data technologies' example (introduced with 'e.g.'), but it appears under the Required qualifications heading, so it is treated as a hard gate. The 'e.g.' qualifier signals these are illustrative examples of the category; Spark is captured separately as the primary named technology.
The Databricks Certified Professional certification is listed as a required qualification, not merely preferred.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect and experience with Azure/GCP appear under Preferred Qualifications; Azure is also mentioned in the role summary as part of the target stack ('Databricks on AWS or Azure'), but since it is not listed as a standalone required skill and is explicitly called out as preferred, it is marked preferred.
No explicit total years of experience are stated in the posting.
Location is inferred as the Washington DC metro area based on Infinitive's known headquarters in the DC/Northern Virginia area and the Washington Post / Washington Business Journal awards cited; the role does not appear to be fully remote.
Requires a Secret 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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