Data/Technology Enablement – Data Engineer – USTRANSCOM JFOSS
About The Position
BizFirst is assisting its client, a boutique consulting firm supporting the federal government, in recruiting a Data Engineer for the USTRANSCOM JFOSS program. The role is based on-site at Scott AFB, Illinois, and supports the U.S. Transportation Command. The client provides strategic execution, financial process enablement, IT systems, and ERP implementation support to the federal government. The Data Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes data solutions from initial design through delivery. The role develops data pipelines and analytics tools, reviews code, and supports production data environments. It involves researching and applying data platforms and container methodologies to migrate or scale cloud data solutions, while translating between business and technical stakeholders and leading technical work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Interim Secret security clearance or higher.
- Experience with programming languages and ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly.
- Ability to ingest, transform, engineer, and visualize data for ad hoc and product-level automated data and analytics solutions.
- Understanding of cloud and distributed systems principles, including load balancing, networks, scaling, and in-memory versus disk processing.
- Experience with large-scale big data methods, including the Hadoop stack, cloud, and Kubernetes.
- Comfort working in a Unix terminal and maintaining a production data environment, including database migrations, artifact infrastructure, and code deployment.
- Ability to design and implement data pipelines and scalable analytics tools.
- Ability to conduct peer code reviews and apply test-driven development and other quality-control approaches.
- Ability to produce technical documentation and user guidance, communicate with business and technical stakeholders, and lead technical work.
Nice To Haves
- Python experience.
- Scala experience.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly architect, design, prototype, implement, and optimize software systems for data access, data management, and data science needs.
- Develop modular code to solve practical problems using industry best practices.
- Contribute to technical work from ideation through delivery.
- Research, experiment with, and use data platforms and container methodologies to migrate or scale cloud data solutions.
- Build data pipelines and scalable analytics tools using relevant technologies.
- Conduct peer code reviews, document technical work, and provide operating guidance to users.
- Promote high-quality software through test-driven development and other quality-control approaches.
- Stay current with industry needs and technology trends through participation in cross-disciplinary communities.
- Develop engineering designs that affect business performance.
- Translate between business and technical stakeholders, lead technical work, and build client relationships.
- Maintain production data environments, including database migrations, artifact infrastructure, and code deployment.
Benefits
- Family health care, with 54% of the cost covered for the entire family.
- Family dental coverage, with 54% of the cost covered for the entire family.
- Family vision coverage, with 54% of the cost covered for the entire family.
- Flexible Spending Account.
- Overutilization bonuses for Time and Materials contracts.
- Lifetime Event Bonuses, for events such as a child or marriage.
- Profit-sharing arrangement for work brought into the company.
- Unlimited leave with approval.
- 401(k) with 100% employer match on the first 4% invested.
- $1,000 training budget.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
