[Hiring] Data Engineer @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Data Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

As a Data Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful by providing technical expertise on a mission-critical program whose purpose is to develop, modernize, enhance, operate, and maintain services for OIS mission critical systems.

• Work on a team consisting of Data and Cloud Architects, Engineers, and Administrators.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain data architectures and databases in the AWS GovCloud environment.
• Develop, construct, test, and maintain high performance, scalable, and stable data architectures for OIS.
• Migrate data from on-premises databases to cloud-based solutions, transforming the data as required.
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new API integrations.
• Implement and manage databases and data delivery systems and transform them into insights, analysis, and reporting.
• Identify, research, design, develop, and promote solutions that enhance the modern development environment.
• Implement the data extraction, data load, and database synchronization routines and functions ETL.
• Implement data governance and quality controls and monitor ETL/ELT jobs to ensure performance.
• Improve system performance by conducting tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new elements.
• Collaborate with data scientists, architects, and other stakeholders to ensure that the data infrastructure supports required functions and performance metrics.
• Design, model, document, and guide the logical and conceptual relationship of data and database changes.
• Document data architecture and systems for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk assessments.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.
• 10+ years of prior Data engineering experience.
• Experience with implementing data warehousing concepts, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and tools (e.g., Pentaho).
• Experience with developing and administrating in PostgreSQL.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with other querying languages.
• Experience in decomposition of Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and triggers to migrate to Amazon Aurora DB, Postgres, or MySQL.
• Proven, hands-on expertise in data modeling, schema design, and database optimization.
• Knowledge of data security and compliance best practices.
• Experience with GitLab, Liquibase, CI/CD pipelines highly preferred.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Debezium, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in network and cyber security design, engineering and operations with emphasis on Navy capabilities.
• Prior Navy experience.
• Experience with cloud data services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Cloud Relational Database Services (e.g., AWS RDS, Aurora DB).
• SAFe experience and knowledge.
• Experience with Data warehousing and Business Intelligence tools such as RedShift, MicroStrategy, Erwin Data Modeler, etc.
• Experience with one or more programming languages like Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be a self-starter and have the ability to work independently with little supervision.

Requirements

• 8570/8140 - IAT II CompTIA Security+ CE.
• Computing Environment Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Data Engineer or similar equivalent Cloud environment certification or Oracle Database Certified Associate or equivalent Database Certification (highly preferred to have in hand upon applying; if not, must obtain within 3 months of start).

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.