Principal Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Description : About Us :

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Position Overview :

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead with 7+ years of experience to lead technical efforts in connecting or potentially migrating data between two large-scale, petabyte-level data systems. This role requires a deep understanding of modern data architecture, cloud-native platforms, and scalable data processing. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams through complex technical challenges involving disparate infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities :

• Lead engineering efforts to design and implement integration or migration solutions across petabyte-scale data platforms.
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, DevOps, and cloud professionals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define integration strategies, assess migration feasibility, and align with broader data and cloud initiatives.
• Oversee development and automation of secure, scalable data pipelines across evolving or heterogeneous environments.
• Promote best practices in infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, and cloud-based data architecture (with a focus on AWS and Databricks).
• Enforce best practices and coding standards that promote code reusability, maintainability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges involving data movement, transformation, security, and infrastructure reliability.
• Support delivery planning, including sprint coordination, roadmap alignment, and milestone tracking.
• Communicate technical progress, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership and project stakeholders.

Requirements :

Required Qualifications :

Desired Qualifications :

Working Environment :

eSimplicity supports a hybrid work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9 : 00 AM to 5 : 00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by your manager.

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

Benefits :

We offer highly competitive salaries and full healthcare benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity :

eSimplicity is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.