Data Engineer -- Escape NOVA with Security Clearance

What if your next cleared job came with a better place to live? If you're working in Northern Virginia, you already know the drill: traffic, expensive housing, long commutes, and another day inside the Beltway. We're looking for a cleared data professional who wants to do meaningful work without necessarily living the Northern Virginia lifestyle. Our team is looking for a Data Engineer / Data Management Specialist to support an important national security mission in the Charlottesville area. The Work You'll help maintain, organize, improve, and govern data within an important operational environment. Depending on your background, your work may include:

• Designing, maintaining, and improving database schemas
• Managing structured data and data relationships
• Improving data quality, consistency, and usability
• Developing and maintaining data standards
• Managing metadata and data definitions
• Documenting data sources, schemas, and relationships
• Helping integrate data from multiple systems
• Identifying opportunities to improve how data is stored, accessed, and shared
• Working with engineers, analysts, and mission users to understand how data should be structured and used
• Supporting data governance and stewardship practices
• Writing SQL and working with relational databases

We're interested in people who have performed this type of work under different titles. You might call yourself a Database Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Analyst, Data Steward, Knowledge Manager, or Intelligence Data professional. The title doesn't matter as much as what you do: make complex data more organized, usable, reliable, and accessible. What We're Looking For You may be a strong fit if you have:

• Experience working with databases or structured data
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience managing, organizing, or integrating data
• Understanding of database schemas and data relationships
• Experience documenting data or developing data standards
• Experience working in a classified or government environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• The ability to work closely with both technical and mission users

Experience with data governance, metadata, data catalogs, cloud databases, ETL/ELT, Python, or modern data platforms is a plus. Why Charlottesville? You don't have to choose between a serious national-security mission and a great place to live. Charlottesville gives you a chance to trade the Northern Virginia grind for a different kind of lifestyle, without leaving the cleared intelligence community.

Think

• Blue Ridge Mountains instead of Beltway traffic
• More space and a different pace of life
• Outdoor recreation right outside your door
• A strong university and technology ecosystem

If you've been thinking about getting out of Northern Virginia, this may be the opportunity to do it without walking away from your clearance or your career. Compensation & Benefits For the right candidate, we're prepared to compete with the Northern Virginia market. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salary
• 401(k) and company benefits
• Paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Potential relocation assistance
• Mission focused work with a high impact customer

Learn more about us, www.pavati.ai If Charlottesville sounds better than NOVA traffic and meaningful work sounds better than boring data… Come build with us. CI Polygraph required after hire. Existing polygraph not required to apply.