Sr. Data Engineer

ECS is seeking an experienced Sr. Data Engineer to support a Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform serving federal customers. The role guides cross-functional teams, supports data product discovery and delivery, and leads improvements in data engineering processes, architecture, automation, and technical solutions for the Department of Homeland Security.

Responsibilities:

• Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers
• Partner with data scientists, data architects, and federal stakeholders to deploy models in production
• Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing
• Support continuous process automation for data ingest
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements
• Help cultivate an environment that promotes customer service excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork
• Ability to vet new and novel technologies in the big data space and make recommendations and articulate risk involved with each solution
• Collaborate with others as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists

Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust Clearance
• 10+ years of IT experience including experience in design, analysis, and implementation of large-scale, complex data architectures
• Proficiency in manipulating data (Python, R, SQL, SAS)
• Ability to develop a roadmap that links the deployment of architectural capabilities within the organization to address inherent data challenges faced by the organization
• Ability to work hands on with developers to deliver solutions and provide customer support and solutioning
• Strong ability to communicate technical solutions with multiple stakeholders at different leadership levels to build relationships, provide guidance, and explain business value of technical solutions
• Experience mentoring data engineers, establishing best practices, providing code review, and helping team to understand business value of solutions
• Experience working in Agile environment leveraging advanced design and engineering best practices
• Building solutions that make use of data to improve business insights, help with operational decisions, and support performance management
• Knowledge of Data Management and Data Architecture concepts, Data Warehousing and Big Data tools, Data Analytics and applicable knowledge of Data Science concepts and tools
• Experience working and deploying AWS Cloud native data and AI technologies