Smart Data Systems Engineer

Peraton•Fort Meade, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Smart Data Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Smart Data Systems Engineer, you will provide systems engineering expertise for a customer Smart Data team to identify, document, and investigate all data integrity and quality control facets of Smart Data tags in the Cloud. Accurate data tagging in the Cloud is needed to enable verification of compliance with internal and external oversight authorities and policies. A candidate for this position must be interested in investigating meta data, security marking, and data flow anomalies. It requires a thorough understanding of customer data flows and a passion for investigating root causes of anomalies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline plus at least 20 years of systems engineering experience.
A Master’s degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience.
A high school diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.
Excellent knowledge of Customer threads and Smart Data strategic goals
Position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Nice To Haves

Previous experience working with policy and compliance is highly desired
Passion for solving problems, developing creative solutions, and root cause analysis
Self-directing
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Candidates should be self-starters, curious, and tenacious

Responsibilities

Execute creative strategies to discover data quality problems
Navigate across organizations to bring people and ideas together to develop creative solutions for data integrity
Troubleshoot and investigate processes and threads for data integrity (root cause analysis)
Ensuring policy and compliance (I.e. purge concerns and requirements)
Maintain a focus on data management processes for accuracy, completeness, and correctness
Maintain Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs)
Schedule and facilitate meetings, scribe meeting minutes, track outcomes and actions