Integration / API / Data Engineer

About the role

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking an Integration/API/Data Engineer to join our team supporting the Department of Education’s (DoED) Federal Student Aid (FSA) Cybersecurity and Privacy Support Services (CPSS) in Washington, DC.

This person will design and implements APIs, interfaces, data exchanges, and integration services that connect customer systems and automation capabilities, enabling secure movement and use of data across development, security, workflow, and ATO processes.

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, test, document, and maintain RESTful APIs, services, interfaces, connectors, and integration components using customer-approved technologies.

- Analyze source and target systems, data models, interface requirements, dependencies, and error-handling needs.

- Implement secure data exchange, transformation, validation, orchestration, and event-driven integration patterns.

- Develop reusable integration services that support evidence collection, assessment workflows, analytics, policy enforcement, and decision support.

- Collaborate with security engineers to apply authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, logging, and secure-coding controls.

- Collaborate with data/analytics engineers to define schemas, mappings, data quality checks, lineage, and operational data requirements.

- Develop automated unit/integration tests, interface documentation, ADRs, runbooks, README content, and release notes.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 5-10 years of experience.

- Senior industry professional certification such as a CISSP or equivalent.

- Demonstrated software engineering experience developing APIs, system interfaces, data integrations, or reusable services in enterprise environments.

- Experience with structured data formats, API security, automated testing, source control, CI/CD, and technical documentation.

- Ability to troubleshoot complex cross-system integration and data-flow issues.

- Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust. At least an active Secret clearance is highly preferred.