Data Engineer
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Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers' most complex challenges. As a Data Engineer Senior at GDIT, you'll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward., As a Data Engineer Senior, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of U.S. Army Europe. You will play a crucial role in providing Mission Command Support for U.S. Forces in the European and African AOR.
- Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end data integration pipelines across MSS, Army enterprise platforms, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Build and manage API integrations (REST/GraphQL) to enable secure, scalable data exchange between mission systems, business systems, and external partners
- Develop data transformation and processing logic using Python and/or Java, supporting both batch and real-time data workflows
- Leverage low-code/no-code data integration tools such as Apache NiFi to design, orchestrate, and monitor data flows, including ingestion, routing, transformation, and enrichment
- Perform data manipulation and transformation (cleansing, normalization, aggregation, schema mapping) across structured and unstructured data sources
- Implement and orchestrate workflows within Maven Smart Systems (MSS), embedding data governance, validation, and automation into operational pipelines
- Integrate MSS with cloud-based data lakes and analytics platforms, ensuring reliable ingestion, transformation, and access to data
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for data workflows and integration services using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
- Utilize containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes to deploy scalable data services
- Apply infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage platform resources
- Monitor and optimize data pipelines, APIs, and system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and system owners to define data contracts, schemas, and integration patterns
- Maintain documentation for APIs, pipelines, workflows, and system architecture
Requirements
Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Terraform (Software), 5 + years of related experience, * Education: Bachelor of Science
- Experience: 5+ years of related experience
- Technical skills: Experience with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Experience with implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows and integration services using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
- Security clearance level: Secret Level Security Clearance
- ship required
- Role requirements: DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification
- Must be able to obtain German TESA
Benefits & conditions
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career in data science and engineering at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your determination for solving complex data challenges.
The likely salary range for this position is $110,500 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Total compensation for international positions varies by tax, social security, and immigration statuses, as well as location. Generally, an international assignment may include allowances, premium uplifts, and/or relocation or transportation benefits, above base salary range noted.
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Travel Required: Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options: Onsite
Work Location: DEU Wiesbaden - Wiesbaden Army Airfield (APC180)
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Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
