Data Engineer - Senior

Clearance Level : TS / SCI

US Citizenship : Required

Job Classification : Full-time

Location : District of Columbia

Experience : 5-7 years

Education : Masters or equivalent experience in a related field.

As a Data Engineer, you will be required to interpret business needs and select appropriate technologies and have experience in implementing data governance of shared and / or master sets of data.

You will work with key business stakeholders, IT experts, and subject-matter experts to plan and deliver optimal data solutions.

You will create, maintain, and optimize data pipelines as workloads move from development to production for specific use cases to ensure seamless data flow for the use case.

You will perform technical and non-technical analyses on project issues and help to ensure technical implementations follow quality assurance metrics.

You will analyze data and systems architecture, create designs, and implement information systems solutions.

Responsibilities :

• Bullets of responsibilities of the role, examples :
• Define and communicate a clear product vision for our client's software products, aligning with user needs and business objectives.
• Create and manage product roadmaps that reflect both innovation and growth strategies.
• Partner with a government product owner and a product team of 7-8 FTEs.
• Develop and design data pipelines to support an end-to-end solution.
• Develop and maintain artifacts (e.g. schemas, data dictionaries, and transforms related to ETL processes).
• Integrate data pipelines with AWS cloud services to extract meaningful insights.
• Manage production data within multiple datasets ensuring fault tolerance and redundancy.
• Design and develop robust and functional dataflows to support raw data and expected data.
• Provide Tier 3 technical support for deployed applications and dataflows.
• Collaborate with the rest of data engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Coordinate and document dataflows, capabilities, etc.
• Occasionally (as needed) support to off-hours deployment such as evening or weekends.

Qualifications :

• Understanding of cloud architectures and enabling tools and technologies, such as, AWS Cloud (GovCloud / C2S).
• Familiar with Amazon Web Managed Services (AWS).
• Working knowledge with software platforms and services, such as, Docker, Kubernetes, JMS / SQS, SNS, Kafka, AWS Lambda, NiFi, Airflow, or similar.
• Proficient experience utilizing JavaScript, Elasticsearch, JSON, SQL, XML.
• Working knowledge with datastores MongoDB / DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, S3, Redshift, JDBC / ODBC, and Redis.
• Familiar with Linux / Unix server environments.
• Experience with Agile development methodology.
• Publishing and / or presenting design reports.
• Coordinating with other team members to reach project milestones and deadlines.
• Working knowledge with Collaboration tools, such as, Jira and Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle.
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
• Direct Experience with DHS and Intelligence Community (IC) component's data architectures and environments (IC-GovCloud experience preferred).
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Keen interest in learning and using the latest software tools, methods, and technologies to solve real world problem sets vital to national security.
• Working knowledge with public keys and digital certificates.
• Experience with DevOps environments.
• Expertise in various COTS, GOTS, and open-source tools which support development of data integration and visualization applications.
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Specialization in Object Oriented Programming languages, scripting, and databases.

Global InfoTek , Inc . is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability.

About Global InfoTek, Inc . Global InfoTek Inc. has an award-winning track record of designing, developing, and deploying best-of-breed technologies that address the nation's pressing cyber and advanced technology needs.

GITI has rapidly merged pioneering technologies, operational effectiveness, and best business practices for over two decades.