Data Engineer
Locations: Washington, DC
Clearance Requirement: Active Top-Secret Clearance (SCI Eligible) Role & Responsibilities • Understanding of programming and data engineering concepts and best practice. • Experience with Python, SQL, and/or Spark. • Experience working with both structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to include data parsing, transformation, schema definition, and query/analysis. • Ability to manage and organize data while identifying trends and inconsistencies that will impact downstream analytics • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively. • High levels of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving capabilities. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Experience with data pipelines or be willing to learn a pipeline from bottom to top • Be able to trouble shoot files against an architecture to see where the upload process is failing. • Be able to understand unit tests and add to them to increase stability to the entire pipeline. • Be prepared to use, GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Anaconda, Spyder, and Microsoft tools. • Be prepared to express ideas and solutions and walk together with teammates through coding challenges Required Qualifications • BS Degree or equivalent and 10 years of experience with programming and software development to include analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, maintenance, quality assurance, troubleshooting and/or upgrading of software systems. • 5 years of experience architecting solutions based on customer requirements. • 5 years of experience leading technical teams. • 3 years of experience designing and implementing automated build and deployment pipelines and supporting platform. • Experience troubleshooting and supporting enterprise applications while maintaining 24/7 availability. • A current Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain a polygraph. Desired Qualifications • Have knowledge of Splunk • AWS experience • Neo4J knowledge or any graph database experience • Have experience with MySQL and its associated tables and queries • You have worked on teams that practice Agile methodologies