Data Engineer
Responsibilities
- Conducting data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis to transform data into narrative products for informed decision making.
- Designing and building data management systems, collaborating with data users to optimize architectures and systems.
- Selecting and configuring backend database technologies and optimizing scalable, efficient data pipelines to ingest, process, and transform structured and unstructured data infrastructure for intelligence needs.
- Implementing automated processes for integrating various datasets, conducting scalable data research, and developing scripts to handle data efficiently.
- Collaborating with collection managers and computer scientists to design new data processes and generate algorithms for automated collection strategies
- Participating in briefings, meetings, conferences, and working groups to provide advice and resolve issues as requested by the Government.
- Support multiple simultaneous projects and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant, and package and deliver the findings to a non-technical audience.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and 6-8 years of relevant experience in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics, or a related analytical field
- US Citizen
- Ability to get/maintain Public Trust clearance
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and database design principles
- Skilled in relational databases, SQL, and API-based data querying
- Experience developing predictive algorithms, image classifiers, object detectors, and others
- Proficiency in data visualization and graphical applications (PowerBI, etc)
- Experience with major data science languages such as R and Python
- Ability to manage and merge disparate data sources using R, Python, or SQL
Preferred Qualifications
- Exceptional coordination and collaboration skills
- Track record of active learning and creative problem solving
- Familiarity using GIT, SVN, Jira, or other version control technologies
- Experience with Azure cloud data analytics tools