Data Engineer

Steampunk

Washington, DC

Full Time

Senior

125k-160k

7 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for seasoned Data Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Data Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and architect migration of data environments with performance and reliability.
Assess and understand the ETL jobs, workflows, BI tools, and reports.
Address technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products.
Experience in crafting database / data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS. Alternatively Azure, GCP).
Support an Agile software development lifecycle.
Contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice!

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
Master's Degree and 3 years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; OR no degree and 9 years of relevant experience.
Possesses at least one professional certification relevant to the technical service provided.
2-4 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems.
2-4 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra, Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Storm, Spark-Streaming, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Python, Java, C++, Scala.
Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring and optimization.

Nice to Have

Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data' data stores.
Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis.
Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment.
Experience with data modeling tools and process.
Experience architecting data systems (transactional and warehouses).
Experience aggregating results and/or compiling information for reporting from multiple datasets.
Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models.
Experience working in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

Possesses at least one professional certification relevant to the technical service provided.

Benefits & Perks

Projected compensation range of $125,000 to $160,000 annually.
Additional Steampunk benefits (details available on company website).

Working at Steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The company is an employee owned organization that invests in its employees to enable them to do their greatest work and rewards outstanding contributions. Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. They focus on Human-Centered delivery methodology and aim to change expectations for shared accountability in solving mission challenges. The company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

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