Data Engineer

Ignite Digital is a company that partners with national security agencies to enhance operational outcomes through innovative technology solutions. The Data Engineer role involves supporting the Naval Research & Development Establishment by designing and implementing data solutions, refining metrics, and developing data architectures to improve analytics capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing use cases and high-level requirements to define lower-level requirements sufficient to design and implement data solutions
• Analyzing and refining enterprise metrics and business rules in coordination with stakeholders, and identify associated data needs and sources
• Establishing and refreshing data architectures/models, data standards, data transformations, and data integrations
• Designing, building, publishing, refreshing, and enhancing references that define terms, metrics, business rules, and the like for transparency to business analysts and other consumers
• Providing engineering, logistics, and PM support solutions
• Providing automation through development and deployment of modern software-intensive solutions
• Providing hosting for software application and services including private and commercial Cloud services
• Performing install and sustain enterprise systems for the Fleet and DoD

Requirements:

• BS degree in Physical Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, Psychology, Business Intelligence, Business Administration or Finance, Statistics, or Management Information Systems
• 6 or more years of experience with analyzing use cases and high-level requirements to define lower-level requirements sufficient to design and implement data solutions
• 6 or more years of experience with analyzing and refining enterprise metrics and business rules in coordination with stakeholders, and identify associated data needs and sources
• 6 or more years of experience with establishing and refreshing data architectures/models, data standards, data transformations, and data integrations
• 6 or more years of experience with designing, building, publishing, refreshing, and enhancing references that define terms, metrics, business rules, and the like for transparency to business analysts and other consumers
• 5 years of experience supporting corporate operations functions with data management and analysis
• 3 years of experience in the areas of data management, data analysis, and data visualization
• 3 years Business Intelligence experience in designing and building dashboards, reporting solutions, and data integration using the SAP Business Objects 3.1 (or newer) reporting suite
• Experience in designing multiple data visualization techniques and applying the most appropriate visualization tailored to different audiences
• Experiences related to project planning, recommending timelines and milestones, and identify risk areas; working and consulting with cross-functional teams in the delivery of a product or service; developing analytical models in spreadsheets and using presentation tools to facilitate communication with stakeholders
• Python, SQL, Data modeling, APIs
• Software design, testing, optimization
• Knowledge and skill with AI libraries