Data Engineer - Mid
Gateway Geospatial Group
Washington, United States of America
9 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
IntermediateJob location
Washington, United States of America
Tech stack
Geographic Information Systems
Airflow
Data as a Services
Data Validation
Information Engineering
ETL
Data Security
Distributed Data Store
Elasticsearch
Python
NoSQL
SQL Databases
Information Technology
Non-relational Database
Data Management
Job description
The Data Engineer enables DIA's Defense Economic Analysis mission by designing, operating, and optimizing data management systems that move, normalize, and prepare structured, unstructured, and geospatial data for analysis. The role builds end-to-end pipelines and back-end data services across SQL/NoSQL environments and contributes to modernization of mission repositories and tooling to support analytic production. This position directly supports analysts and decision makers by ensuring that data is accurate, reliable, and accessible for mission use., * Develop and optimize ETL pipelines for diverse data sources.
- Manage and tune relational and non-relational databases.
- Implement data validation and quality assurance processes.
- Enable integration of geospatial and economic datasets for analytic workflows.
- Support modernization of DIA repositories and cross-domain data access.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR 9+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- 5-7 years of professional data engineering experience.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, and ETL frameworks.
- Experience with geospatial data standards (OGC, ISO)., * Master's in Data Science or Engineering.
- Experience with Airflow, ElasticSearch, and distributed databases.
- Prior IC/DoD project experience.