Navaide

Navaide

Lead AI & Data Analytics Engineer - Must be government clearance eligible

Arlington, VA

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$150kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonSQLSnowflakeDatabricksAWSAzurePlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningSparkData AnalysisData EngineeringData VisualizationNLPLLMsForecastingProcurementERPLeadershipCommunicationHadoop

About the role

  • We bring deep domain expertise, practical execution, and a people-first culture to complex government environments.
  • This is not a traditional dashboard developer role.
  • Establish standards for data quality, governance, documentation, and responsible AI use.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of AI-enabled analytics products supporting acquisition and contract writing operations.
  • Build and maintain data products, dashboards, workflows, and analytical applications using Palantir Foundry and Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Develop data pipelines, reusable data models, and analytics layers using Databricks, SQL, Python, PySpark, or similar tools.
  • Identify, prioritize, and drive analytics and AI use cases from concept through delivery.
  • Partner with acquisition, contracting, program, and technical stakeholders to understand business problems and translate them into data and AI solutions.
  • Develop AI-enabled capabilities such as natural language querying, automated leadership summaries, risk indicators, anomaly detection, trend analysis, workload forecasting, and decision-support recommendations.
  • Build dashboards and reports that provide insight into contract writing activity, workload, procurement status, cycle times, data quality, system adoption, bottlenecks, and operational risk.
  • Support data integration across contract writing, procurement, financial, program, and operational data sources.
  • Validate AI-generated outputs against source data, business rules, and subject matter expert feedback.
  • Provide technical direction to junior or support-level data analytics staff.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data analytics, data engineering, platform engineering, business intelligence, AI/ML, or analytics product development.
  • Experience working with Advana, Jupiter, or similar federal/DoD data environments.
  • Strong experience with SQL, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Hands-on expertise with one or more modern data engineering, analytics, or data platform technologies (e.g. Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Apache NiFi, Delta Lake).
  • Experience integrating and transforming data from multiple sources and translating business requirements into data products, dashboards, AI use cases, and technical solutions.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, access control, and responsible AI practices.
  • Eligible to obtain a U.S. Government clearance Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power BI
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Navaide is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Compensation

  • $130,000 - 150,000 / year (commensurate with experience) Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage Flexible time off Professional development opportunities Company perks such as flex spending, wellness initiatives, etc.

Benefits

  • For more about us, please check out the following links: About Navaide Other Opportunities Employee Benefits Connect with us on LinkedIn!

Company info

  • About Navaide Other Opportunities Employee Benefits Connect with us on LinkedIn!
  • Catalysts for a Stronger Tomorrow At Navaide, we exist to empower organizations to evolve and adapt in a rapidly changing world.
  • Our mission is rooted in agility, scalability, and a commitment to exceeding expectations, ensuring impactful results for our clients and communities.

Equal opportunity

  • Employer: Navaide is an EEO Employer.
  • We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
  • E-Verify Participation: E-Verify Participation Poster IER Right to Work Poster No third parties, please.
  • Navaide is an EEO Employer.
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