Data Engineering Manager (SRF 383B) - 100% Telework!

General Dynamics Information Technology

1d • Remote

About The Position

Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As a Data Engineering Manager at GDIT, you’ll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward. At GDIT, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate as we provide enterprise IT operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system, and the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to store, match, share, and analyze biometric and biographic data in support of DHS’s strategic mission. At the most critical moments of change, we’re there – bringing the resources, solutions, and expertise to help our clients take on some of the world’s biggest challenges – and GDIT is excited to offer you a unique opportunity to join a best performing O&M team supporting one our nation’s most critical national security, law enforcement, immigration and border management, and intelligence missions. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Data Engineer Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Data Engineer Manager joining our program to lead an Operational Data Store team of engineers, to work proactively, collaboratively, and with an entrepreneurial spirit in providing engineering and O&M support to the customer and their Stakeholder communities in achieving their critical missions. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Data Engineer Manager, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of DHS and OBIM.

Requirements

• Education: BA/BS or equivalent
• Experience: 5+ years of experience
• Technical skills: experience managing the development and/or maintenance of all life cycle phases in Data Warehousing project(s); experience performing or managing O&M of on-premise or cloud-hosted, federal IT enterprise systems; database experience (Oracle and DB2 on-premise); experience with AWS GovCloud data storage/management service(s) (Redshift, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, Quick Sight, VPC); experience administering or managing data migration and transformation tools (ETL/ELT tools on-premise, Informatica, Glue, DMS); and experience administering or managing Data Manipulation tools (SQL, Athena)
• Security clearance level: Public Trust (DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability)
• US citizenship required
• Role requirements: work location - any CONUS home/remote; adept at problem-solving, troubleshooting, collaboration, time management, multi-tasking, and task-ownership/leadership; and excellent oral and written communication skills, organization and documentation skills, and requirements analysis skills.

Nice To Haves

• technical team management in a data center/O&M contract, and a proven ability to manage remote staff, documentation efforts, and data migration, data transformation and/or modernization projects
• degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field of study
• experience with AWS GovCloud, Informatica ETL software, Oracle & Redshift databases
• experience in DevOps and Agile development and/or methodologies

Responsibilities

• Manage engineers engaged in design, development, test, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud solutions focused on data capture, transformation, validation, and distribution/reporting/publishing
• Collaborate with teams to transform data and integrate models into automated processes
• Work with stakeholders including program, product, data, and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support data infrastructure needs
• Manage team’s production O&M support, scheduled, on-call 24x7 support
• Engage program staff and other OBIM contractors on support needs
• Communicate project and work status to senior program leadership and customer
• Proactively identify and propose solutions to improve existing system architectures
• Schedule staff to obtain proper response in a timely manner.
• Enjoy working in a learning environment, with a small team that must be enabled to mitigate skill and knowledge gaps between team operations and/or responsibilities, on a periodic basis.
• Understand the criticality of knowing and teaching the business operations, supporting systems, and underlaying data to the team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees