# Data Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Quantico, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $142,792 - $166,750
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Data Engineer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is an organization of approximately 2,000 personnel, with 700 serving at HQ and the remaining staff serving at offices worldwide. NCIS is the DON component with primary responsibility for criminal investigation, law enforcement, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber matters.

**MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT**

As a Data Engineer, you will work on advancing the agency’s mission of investigating and defeating criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats to the DON. You will design and build a data hub that collects, stores, aggregates, and processes raw data into clean, usable formats for analysis, data visualization, and Machine Learning.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

- Design, build, and manage scalable end-to-end data pipelines for data structures, encompassing data transformation, data models, data schemas, metadata, and workload management

- Work with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures, and integrated datasets using traditional data integration technologies

- Provide IT expertise for decision makers to build out a new data environment and transition the agency to data-driven processes

- Identify data generators/sources, develop a data acquisition and integration strategy, and implement best practices for data governance, data quality, data storage, and data usage

- Experience building and having in-depth knowledge in data hubs and various forms of data housing, warehousing, lakes, and marts

- Experience with data management processes facilitating the handling of data via IT infrastructure

- Display knowledge and experience of cloud architectures/platforms and integration of data from on-premises to the cloud

- Experience with data cleansing and management to improve operational needs

- Establish enterprise standards for Reference Data and Master Data

- Recommend improvements to the data environment and implement schema changes

- Optimize and consolidate business and operational data

- Expand the data infrastructure to include sensor, device data, and other data sources

- Make recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in how NCIS acquires, stores, manages, shares, and applies its data

- Engage business users and stakeholders for the increased release of actionable high-quality data

- Develop technology solutions to provide the platform, training, and standardized tools enabling querying, data mining, statistical analysis, reporting, scenario modeling, data visualization, and dashboarding

- Provide documentation of data engineering activities

- Establish data policies, standards, and procedures that improve data quality, availability, accessibility, security, usability, and enforcement of enterprise information management program requirements

**REQUIREMENTS**

- Active Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI post-hire

- Minimum 10 years of work experience in Data Management disciplines, including data integration, modeling, optimization, and data quality

- Experience in a Cloud platform (AWS, Azure)

- Strong experience with advanced analytics tools for object-oriented/object function scripting using languages such as Python, Java, and Scala

- Knowledge and experience with Machine Learning, AI, and data analytics a plus

- Experience working in a Data Management/CDO office a plus

- Strong ability to design, build, and manage data pipelines for data structures

- Ability to work with both IT and business in integrating analytics and data science output into business processes and workflows

- Strong experience with popular database programming languages, including SQL and PL/SQL for relational databases

- Strong experience in working with large, heterogeneous datasets

- Demonstrated success in working with large, heterogeneous datasets to extract business value

- Basic experience in working with data governance, data quality, and data security teams

- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple deployment environments

- Deep law enforcement information domain knowledge or previous experience working in LE, DoW, and/or DON a plus

**BENEFITS**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match and competitive pay

- Paid time off

- Hybrid work environment (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

**SALARY**

The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $166,750.

## Skills

### Required
- Database Integration
- Data Management
- ETL Pipelines
- ETL Processing
- Python
- Java
- Scala
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- Machine Learning
- AI
- Data Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- AWS
- Azure

### Nice to have
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Apache Kafka
- Airflow
- Spark
- ETL Tools
- DON Jupiter

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