Data Engineer

We are currently seeking a Mid-Level Data Engineer. The ideal candidate believes in exploring alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions.

In this position, you will:

• Join a backend development team to develop new features for a customer-facing application.

• Model complex data relationships and architect database designs to support efficient queries.

• Build serverless APIs.

• Collaborate with a Machine Learning team to deploy models that enrich data.

• Design, build, and implement data pipelines to track data provenance.

• Contribute to the development of custom data ingest capabilities and the integration of customer and open-source code to address complex problems using cutting-edge big data / cloud technology.

• Design and implement core architecture and capabilities for software from prototype to operational applications.

• Apply experience working within an Agile software development life cycle, including sprint planning, sprints, sprint review, etc.

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or similar.

• At least 2-4 years of experience as a Software Engineer.

• 2+ years of Python development experience.

• In some cases, educational requirements may be adjusted for applicable work experience. Work experience may be adjusted for highly specialized knowledge or uniquely applicable experience.

• Experience in designing enterprise APIs and documentation.

• Data parsing/transforming techniques to include JSON, XML, CSV formats.

• Experience in SQL database (MySQL, Postgres).

• Experience in distributed databases, NoSQL databases, full text-search engines (e.g. Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Solr).

• Experience in RESTful web services.

• Experience in Microservices architecture.

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigms.

• Experience in continuous testing, integration, and deployment.

• Experience with the Linux operating system.

• Have a solid understanding of Linux systems and proficiency in shell scripting (Shell/Bash, JavaScript, Python).

• Experience in file manipulation tools (awk, sed, wc, find, grep, etc)

• Experience in cloud based technologies (AWS, Azure).

• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Git, Nexus, Maven).

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• AWS certifications highly desired, but not required.

• Understanding of AGILE software development methodologies and use of standard software development tool suites. (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Github Enterprise, etc.).

• Experience in streaming and/or batch analytics (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink, Storm, MapReduce, Hadoop).

Security Clearance

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET level security clearance.