Data Engineer

Altamira delivers a variety of analytic and engineering capabilities to the US National Security community, but the tech culture and the caliber of the individuals that bring these capabilities to fruition are what really set us apart. We’re a curious, responsive, dedicated bunch spread across many corporate cultures. Dayton, OH is highly focused on the Space-based mission set with a heavy emphasis on sensor exploitation and analysis; Tampa, FL focuses on ‘art-of-the-possible’ analytics of all kinds with an emphasis on graph technologies, NLP, and wrangling complex data sets; and all forces converge at our headquarters in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area where we host our tech events and support engineering and analytic missions across several IC and DOD agencies.

While our work occurs in different states and different mission domains, we’ve got analytics at the heart of every operation and genuine curiosity for new methods, techniques, and solutions. Our specialties are data science and analytics, data engineering, software engineering, and end-to-end analytic solutions architecture. We’ve also got some awesome benefits like the Altamira Healthy Living program, with ongoing competitions and a flexible spending stipend for health and wellness-related items.

Location: Crystal City, VA; Ft. Belvoir, VA; Ft Bragg, NC; Tampa, FL; other locations may be possible

The Role: The Data Engineer will support data scientists and analysts through wrangling and readying of datasets for analysis. The Data Engineer will be versed in Extract, Transforms, Load (ETL) techniques and technologies, and will also be familiar with a variety of database types, schemas, and ontologies for centralized data storage. You’ll be working on an interdisciplinary team serving as the data custodian, responsible for its provenance, accuracy, and location throughout project execution. The workflows that you design will support a variety of analytics and analytic applications.

Your skills:

• Demonstrable expertise in software development or software engineering  
• Working knowledge of 2 or more programming languages
• Experience with Agile software development practices and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience designing and delivering software solutions in cloud environments (AWS strongly preferred)
• Experience with multiple database types, and designing ontologies and schemas in support of various analytic or query-based applications (e.g., ElasticSearch, Cassandra, JanusGraph)
• Familiarity with producing Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) of data storage methods is strongly desired
• Familiarity with containerization tools and techniques, container orchestration, and workflow management, to include technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, or Terraform is desired

Your quals:

• Secret, TS, or TS/SCI clearance (TS/SCI strongly preferred)
• 2 years in a software development or software engineering role supporting analytic applications
• Bachelor’s Degree (BS) or higher in technical field related to software development
• Experience delivering software or technical solutions to DOD or IC customers, USAF, JAIC, NRO, NGA, or other intelligence organizations preferred

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security!

Altamira requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In accordance with applicable law, Altamira will provide an exemption to this requirement as a reasonable accommodation due to a disability or a sincerely held religious belief or practice that prevents receipt of the vaccine.