Data Engineer (Skillbridge Intern) - 28499

HII's Mission Technologies divisionAugusta, GA
Hybrid

About The Position

Enlighten, honored as a Top Workplace from USA Today, is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, with expertise in cloud-based services, software and systems engineering, cyber capabilities, and data science. Enlighten provides continued innovation and proactivity in meeting our customers’ greatest challenges. We recognize that the most effective environment for your projects doesn’t always look the same. Our hybrid work approach ensures that you can make lasting relationships with your team and collaborate in-person to get the job done—while having the flexibility to work from home when needed to achieve focused results. This is an UNPAID internship through the DoD SkillBridge Program for transitioning active-duty US military personnel. DoD SkillBridge Internships are available to help transitioning active-duty military personnel gain real-world experience in the work force sometime during their final 180 days of active-duty service. The intern will actively train on meaningful projects and work closely with a mentor and with senior company leadership. Enlighten Internship programs are focused on placing transitioning military into internships that require KSAs, Education & Military Training similar to their current or previous military jobs; positions that could easily transition over to a full-time regular and permanent job with Enlighten.

Requirements

  • Active-Duty Military ONLY within final 180 days of active-duty service.
  • Minimum of 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
  • Additional experience dependent on Program of Instruction.
  • Available during core hours for critical meetings and training.

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with Big Data Platform (BDP) technologies.
  • Familiarity with BDP analytics and applications.
  • Familiarity with Army and Air Force Cyber data ETL process.
  • Familiarity with Data Acquisition, Taxonomy/Schema.
  • Familiarity with existing parsers and deployment flows.
  • Familiarity with Kafka and Nifi workflows.
  • Experience establishing a development environment for BDP parser development.
  • Experience with project management.

Responsibilities

  • Train as a Data Engineer with Enlighten, reporting to a designated Enlighten Supervisor, with the goal of learning Enlighten’s Enterprise approach to design, build, and optimize Big Data Platform (BDP) systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale.
  • Be assigned special projects as needed.
  • Understand basic data engineer concepts.
  • Manage, optimize, oversee, and monitor data retrieval, storage, and distribution throughout the BDP enclaves.
  • Develop data set processes (Extract, transform, load (ETL)).
  • Use programming language and tools.
  • Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
  • Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling.
  • Use data to discover tasks that can be automated.
  • Modify Kafka and Nifi workflows.
  • Modify existing parser schema and transforms to alter ingest pipeline.
  • Access logs to identify errors.
  • Troubleshoot errors.

Benefits

  • Enlighten will fund all travel costs if candidate is selected and approved for SkillBridge.
  • Access to many additional great benefits/perks that can be found on our website at www.eitccorp.com
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