ETL Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a seasoned ETL Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data pipelines. We are looking for more than just an "ETL Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Assess and understand ETL jobs and workflows
• Create reusable data pipelines from source to target systems
• Test, validate, and deploy ETL pipelines
• Support reporting, business intelligence, and data science end users through ETL and ELT operations
• Work with data architects to create data models and design schemas for RDBMS, warehouse, and data lake systems
• Work within an Agile software development lifecycle
• Contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a government clearance, DOD Tier 3 clearance preferred
• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government
• 2-4 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems
• 2-4 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as:
  • ETL Tools: Python, Informatica, Pentaho, Talend
  • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents)
  • Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring and optimization (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores
• Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis
• Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models
• CompTIA Network+ preferred

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $110,000 to $130,000. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees.

About Steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth.