Data Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Data Engineer with Security Clearance
Location: Mc Lean

This data engineer will work as part of a team of experienced data scientists, data analysts, and full stack developers to develop and maintain applications that enable client business processes.

Responsibilities include:

Defining and developing techniques to integrate, consolidate, and structure data for functional workflows and analytical use
Understanding complex and organization-specific datasets.
Producing dashboards and visualizations to support complex client requirements.
Conducting root cause analysis, identifying errors, and refactoring pipelines as needed.
Performing analyses to answer routine and ad hoc questions as identified in the data being leveraged
Developing and improving standard operating procedures.
Communicating with data analysts and developers to design tools and applications to improve response to repeat requests.
Researching, analyzing and documenting the benefits of various technical approaches.
Proposing alternative designs and processes to manage various types of data using both standard and custom tables and fields.
Working in teams and independently.
Support the maturation of data quality
Support the transformation of businesses process through automation
Transform data and analysis into informative visualizations and interactive dashboards using open-source and commercially available visualization and dashboard tools
Advising on the interpretation and use of data analysis products, dashboards and reports to non-technical customers
Assisting the development of junior teammates through technical mentoring, code review, and other assistance.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, information systems, data analytics, or other related business or quantitative discipline
7+ years experience in data engineering or related field

Experience with ETL process and concepts
Knowledge and experience manipulating and joining data from various sources and in various formats.
Ability to query datasets from multiple sources, knowledge of data refresh methodologies, and ability to leverage data models.
High level of competency with data engineering coding languages like SQL and Python
Self-starter with the vision to independently identify opportunities for improvement through data analytics
A true team player who maintains a positive attitude in a dynamic environment
Excellent communication skills, written and oral
Proven ability to work with business customers and technical teams 
Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously 
Excellent customer relationship management skills 
Innovative problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment  
Ability to work on client site in the NCR in Washington, D.C. Active TS/SCI required. CI Polygraph required for the position; candidates without a current polygraph will be sponsored for upgrade. Desired:
Masters degree or higher
Experience developing dashboards using Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, RShiny, plotly, or d3.js

Experience with version control software like Git

Experience with Agile development
Management consulting experience desired