# Data Engineer Senior

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Fort Belvoir, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $153,000 - $207,000
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Engineer Senior to support the development of business intelligence solutions for essential government agencies. As a Data Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for delivering data engineering, data platform, reporting, and analytics capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill our customers' data and analytics objectives.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, build, and integrate configurable, interactive, secure, user-friendly dashboards, self-service reporting capabilities, and predictive analytics in Grafana and Power BI.

- Design intuitive, interactive dashboards and visualizations in Grafana and Power BI that communicate business insights effectively.

- Coordinate and implement data replication or feeds required to support downstream stakeholders and external systems.

- Continuously monitor system performance to ensure 95% or greater of analytical queries meet defined Service Level Agreement (SLA) response times monthly, including dashboard load times of five seconds or less.

- Drive user adoption of dashboards and reporting tools, with monthly usage across targets users.

- Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and UX designers to ensure seamless integration of analytics features into the user experience.

- Work with stakeholders to define KPI and other metrics ingest requirements.

- Partner with business leaders, data engineers, analysts, and program leadership to translate business requirements and KPIs into actionable technical designs and insights.

- Build and enhance dashboards and reports in Grafana and Power BI, ensuring performance and usability at scale.

- Extract, transform and ingest data from databases, APIs, or data warehouses using SQL, Python or other ETL tools.

- Implement and validate SQL logic, calculations, and metric definitions across reporting products.

- Maintain and optimize data connections, queries and tool framework.

- Coordinate with Data Engineering to resolve upstream data issues and curate data for reporting.

- Apply visualization standards and documentation so reports are consistent, interpretable, and support adoption.

- Ensure reporting artifacts comply with privacy, access control, and data handling requirements.

- Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, standards, and best practices ensuring data accuracy, consistency, classification, and security.

- Drive continuous improvement of Grafana and Power BI platforms through performance tuning, automation, metadata management, and advanced analytics (predictive and self-service BI).

- Support delivery of architecture design documents, governance artifacts, data lineage, and metadata catalog processes.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Data Science or closely related discipline.

- 5+ years of business intelligence development experience, with at least 3+ years of experience with Grafana and Power BI.

- Strong hands-on experience with Grafana and Power BI.

- Expertise in python, SQL, and data transformations supporting large-scale analytical data systems.

- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with analytical data models and semantic layers.

- Strong PromQL or LogQL command knowledge for querying datasets.

- Strong foundation in data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL processes.

- Familiarity with full LTGM stack.

- Experience delivering reporting in regulated or high-sensitivity data environment.

- Experience assisting with testing, by writing acceptance criteria & confirming test cases results.

- Experience with producing relevant and current requirements, sizing user stories correctly, and removing roadblocks prior to sprints start.

- Excellent presentation and communication skills.

- Consultant mindset with the ability to work with high level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationships.

- Experience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods best practices, and emerging technologies.

- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement.

- Demonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team.

## Skills

### Required
- Grafana
- Power BI
- Python
- SQL
- Data Science
- Business Intelligence

### Nice to have
- SNOW dashboards
- automation scripts in python
- K8s

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