Sr. Data Engineer

About the role

The Data Engineer position at CGS is aimed at supporting a robust Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform. This platform aims to provide solutions that enable federal customers to transform data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers
• Actively participate in an Agile/Scrum team and adhere to Agile/Scrum best practices
• Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing
• Support continuous process automation for data ingest
• Achie technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements
• Cultivate an environment that promotes customer service excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork
• Collaborate with others as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• 7+ years of IT experience including experience in design, management, and solutioning of large, complex data sets and models
• Experience with developing data pipelines from many sources from structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats
• Proficiency in developing ETL processes, and performing test and validation steps
• Proficiency to manipulate data (Python, R, SQL, SAS)
• Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies
• Strong understanding of the agile principles and ability to apply them
• Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and ability to apply them
• Experience with relational database, such as, PostgreSQL
• Experience working comfortably in version control systems, such as, Git
• Experience creating and consuming APIs (ideally)
• Experience with DHS and knowledge of DHS standards (ideally)
• Experience with Tableau or PowerBI (ideally)
• Experience with Shell scripts on Linux (ideally)
• Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and communicate technical terms to non-technical audiences

Benefits

CGS offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time schedule is offered.

Skills

The ideal candidate should have:

• Experience with developing data pipelines from many sources from structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats
• Proficiency in developing ETL processes, and performing test and validation steps
• Proficiency to manipulate data (Python, R, SQL, SAS)
• Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies
• Strong understanding of the agile principles and ability to apply them
• Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and ability to apply them
• Experience with relational database, such as, PostgreSQL
• Experience working comfortably in version control systems, such as, Git
• Experience creating and consuming APIs
• Experience with DHS and knowledge of DHS standards
• Experience with Tableau or PowerBI
• Experience with Shell scripts on Linux
• Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and communicate technical terms to non-technical audiences