Grafana Data Engineer Senior

General Dynamics Information Technology • Fort Belvoir, VA

8d • $153,000 - $207,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Data Engineer Senior delivers data engineering, data platform, reporting, and analytics capabilities to support operational decision-making and customer data and analytics objectives. The role provides advanced reporting, analytics, visualizations, and statistical modeling that give users and stakeholders data-driven decision-support tools and actionable insights. It oversees the design, development, integration, and ongoing enhancement of dashboards, reporting tools, and predictive analytics in compliance with federal requirements. Grafana is the primary platform, with additional focus on Power BI. This is a full-time, on-site position at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship.

The position works with stakeholders and technical teams to translate business requirements and KPIs into technical designs and usable reporting. It develops and maintains secure dashboards and self-service reporting, supports data feeds and integrations, monitors system performance, and ensures reporting artifacts follow privacy, access-control, governance, and data-handling requirements. The role also contributes to architecture documentation, data lineage, metadata catalog processes, platform optimization, automation, and predictive analytics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science or a closely related discipline.
• At least 5 years of business intelligence development experience, including at least 3 years of experience with Grafana and Power BI.
• Strong hands-on experience with Grafana and Power BI.
• Expertise in Python, SQL, and data transformations supporting large-scale analytical data systems.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with analytical data models and semantic layers.
• Strong PromQL or LogQL command knowledge for querying datasets.
• Strong foundation in data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL processes.
• Familiarity with the full LTGM stack.
• Experience delivering reporting in a regulated or high-sensitivity data environment.
• Experience assisting with testing by writing acceptance criteria and confirming test-case results.
• Experience producing current requirements, sizing user stories, and removing roadblocks before sprint starts.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work with senior customer stakeholders and build strong customer relationships.
• Experience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods, best practices, and emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to formulate and communicate improvement recommendations.
• Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
• Must possess and maintain a DOD 8140 certification (CompTIA Security+).
• Must possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Must work on the customer site at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another relevant field.
• Experience developing SNOW dashboards.
• Proficiency writing Python automation scripts.
• Experience maintaining Kubernetes (K8s).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, build, and integrate configurable, interactive, secure, user-friendly dashboards, self-service reporting capabilities, and predictive analytics in Grafana and Power BI.
• Create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that communicate business insights effectively.
• Coordinate and implement data replication or feeds for downstream stakeholders and external systems.
• Monitor system performance to meet analytical-query SLA response times and dashboard-load-time targets.
• Drive user adoption of dashboards and reporting tools.
• Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and UX designers to integrate analytics features into the user experience.
• Work with stakeholders to define KPI and other metrics ingestion requirements.
• Translate business requirements and KPIs into actionable technical designs and insights with business leaders, engineers, analysts, and program leadership.
• Build and enhance Grafana and Power BI dashboards and reports, ensuring performance and usability at scale.
• Extract, transform, and ingest data from databases, APIs, and data warehouses using SQL, Python, or other ETL tools.
• Implement and validate SQL logic, calculations, and metric definitions across reporting products.
• Maintain and optimize data connections, queries, and the tool framework.
• Coordinate with Data Engineering to resolve upstream data issues and curate data for reporting.
• Apply visualization standards and documentation to make reports consistent and interpretable and support adoption.
• Ensure reporting artifacts comply with privacy, access-control, and data-handling requirements.
• Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, standards, and practices for data accuracy, consistency, classification, and security.
• Improve Grafana and Power BI through performance tuning, automation, metadata management, and advanced analytics.
• Support architecture design documents, governance artifacts, data lineage, and metadata catalog processes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work weeks where possible.
• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental and vision plan options.
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior