Principal Security Data Engineer
Tier4 Group · Springfield, IL
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Jul 21, 2026
Springfield, IL
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and operationalizing data pipelines, models, and analytics products that serve cybersecurity risk and decision-making needs. Day-to-day work spans ingesting and transforming security and IT datasets, developing executive dashboards and operational reporting, and prototyping integrations across cyber tools and enterprise data platforms. Suited to someone with deep hands-on data engineering experience who also understands core cybersecurity domains.
Senior level · 8+ years · Springfield, MA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2 people in the Springfield, MA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1–3
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $165,286 (middle half $125,419–$168,577).
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 role is posted with two locations — Springfield, MA and New York City, NY — with a hybrid requirement of 3 days onsite per week. CBSA is set to Springfield, MA (the first listed); the NYC metro (CBSA 35620) is an equally valid location for this posting.
The title says 'Principal' but the actual scope and requirements (8+ years, hands-on data engineering within a team, no explicit org-wide or cross-org technical authority) are consistent with a Senior-level role. 'Principal' here reads as a job-grade label rather than a true top-of-ladder, org-wide authority position.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role's primary work is designing and building data pipelines, models, and architectures (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects / Data Engineers), but it also involves advanced analytics, risk indicators, and AI-augmented analysis (pointing to 15-2051 Data Scientists). The data engineering and architecture framing is slightly dominant, hence 15-1243 as primary.
Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and Alteryx are listed together as interchangeable examples of 'modern data platforms' in the requirements section; they are captured as a single skill with alternatives.
Tableau and Power BI are listed under Preferred Qualifications as examples of BI/visualization tools.
Claude and AI code assistants appear in both the job description narrative and the Preferred Qualifications section; they are marked preferred as the hard requirement is only for general AI-assisted workflow familiarity, not a specific tool.
CISSP and CISM are listed under Preferred Qualifications as optional certifications.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
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