Data Engineering at Lockheed Martin
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L5 senior data engineer at Lockheed Martin sits around $186K total comp from 188 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Azure, Spark and AWS, according to current job listings. Lockheed Martin pays data engineers in line with the other companies we track. Reviews put them at 4.1 on Glassdoor, among the highest of any company here. Lockheed Martin employees report healthy morale and employee happiness is trending up over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 10 data engineering roles are open right now.
Lockheed Martin data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Lockheed Martin offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Lockheed Martin employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Lockheed Martin events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2024Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Lockheed Martin data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Lockheed Martin data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQLLockheed Martin data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
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Design, build, and maintain secure data pipelines for AI/ML workloads
Develop solutions across data fabric for interoperability between current and emerging technologies in alignment with Space and Enterprise reference architectures
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Design, build and maintain a data platform using Starburst/Trino as a core query engine
Preparing for the Lockheed Martin loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Lockheed Martin with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Lockheed Martin interview difficulty
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Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
- 03
5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition