DescriptionThis position is contingent upon contract award.Leidos is seeking a Data Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Summit Advanced Tooling, Lakehouse, and Artificial Intelligence Services (ATLAS) program. The engineer will work with VA customers, data owners, analysts, and platform teams to onboard data sources and deliver reliable, analytics-ready data products using approved Summit engineering and governance patterns.Remote work within CONUS is subject to VA security and system-access requirements. Must support Eastern Time collaboration and applicable production coverage. Occasional after-hours or weekend support may be required for critical outages or planned maintenance.Primary ResponsibilitiesAssess customer data and analytics requirements with product owners, business analysts, and data stewards; translate needs into scoped ingestion and transformation tasks.Develop, configure, test, and maintain batch or event-driven data pipelines for new and migrated data sources using approved platform patterns.Build customer-focused transformations, semantic views, and consumption-ready datasets for reporting, analytics, and data science.Perform source-to-target reconciliation, freshness checks, data quality validation, and defect remediation; document evidence for customer acceptance.Implement approved access, metadata, lineage, and security requirements in coordination with governance and security teams.Monitor pipeline health and performance, troubleshoot failed loads and data discrepancies, and support production incidents and corrective actions.Document pipeline configurations, dependencies, runbooks, and handoffs; contribute improvements to reusable templates and automation.Coordinate customer onboarding and technical handover with Summit platform and customer enablement teams.Required QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 8+ years of relevant expe