Senior Data Engineer

TIAG•Washington, DC

2d•$120,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

TIAG is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Enterprise Data and Analytics Modernization Initiative (EDAMI). The initiative aims to build enterprise analytics capabilities by improving people, processes, and technology. This role is primarily remote and supports data migration, data engineering, and source-system integration to meet mission needs and strengthen FEMA’s enterprise data analytics capabilities. The engineer works with raw, structured, and unstructured data to identify improvements, correlations, patterns, and trends that support data-driven decisions. The role includes developing data models, maintaining a data warehouse and analytics environment, and creating scripts for data integration and analysis. The Senior Data Engineer also supports the development of analytical tools and workflows, communicates technical assessments to non-technical stakeholders, provides technical assistance to partners, and prepares recommendations and reports for leadership. The position works under Agile methodologies and includes documenting technical deliverables, providing training, reviewing technical documents, and contributing to proposal development and contract performance activities. An active Public Trust at minimum is required for consideration.

Requirements

Eight years of technical experience supporting data engineering and/or data warehouse programs.
Three years executing Agile IT methodologies and implementation, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
Experience with cloud technologies, including Azure, and with data science, machine learning, decision-support tools, and programming technologies such as Python, Spark, and SQL Scala.
Ability to manage and ensure successful completion of multiple technical tasks in assigned projects.
Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership.
Active Public Trust at minimum.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar technical area.
Direct experience supporting FEMA.
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification, an equivalent certification, or equivalent experience migrating source-system data into a Databricks Serverless SQL environment.
Growth-minded approach and interest in supporting a diverse variety of efforts.
Experience supporting proposal development activities.

Responsibilities

Coordinate, communicate, and execute data migration, engineering solutions, and source-system integration support.
Create technological solutions to improve processes and systems involving big data, using automation where possible.
Develop data models, maintain data warehouses and analytics environments, and write scripts for data integration and analysis.
Conduct complex data analysis and report results.
Analyze and organize raw data; build data systems, pipelines, algorithms, and prototypes.
Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.
Evaluate business needs and objectives and interpret trends and patterns.
Support development of tools, workflows, and analytical products that advance data management initiatives or improve program efficiency.
Work with business lines to identify patterns and relationships across data sets and communicate technical assessments to non-technical individuals.
Collaborate constructively with individuals and groups.
Provide data-related reports to leadership and stakeholders to support decision-making, action planning, and continuous improvement.
Provide technical assistance and build partners’ understanding of effective data engineering.
Work with the team to identify and resolve technical debt and improve throughput.
Identify and resolve problems or issues.
Ensure the quality of task products, services, and deliverables, including participating in reviews, audits, and site visits.
Prepare, analyze, and brief recommendations for technical approaches and technologies that sustain mission success.
Perform job responsibilities using Agile project methodologies.
Document technical deliverables, provide training, and prepare or review other technical documents as required.
Support proposal development and contract performance activities, including preparing technical past-performance references and approach-based solutions and supporting color team reviews.
Manage multiple technical tasks and ensure their successful completion.