Senior Data Engineer
Springfield, VA, US
Full Time Senior-level / Expert Clearance required USD 120K - 194K *
Elder Research
At Elder Research, we hand-craft innovative data analytics solutions that inform decisions, deliver value, and transform businesses.Senior Data Engineer – Defense & Intelligence
Onsite Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Polygraph
People Centered. Data Driven
Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will support robust and repeatable data manipulation, large scale infrastructure for data ingestion, and stunning data visualization for custom client applications.
Essential Functions:
- Ability to work on-site for 36 hours during a typical week
- TS/SCI with CI-Polygraph
- Experience supporting the geospatial intelligence mission space
- Work collaboratively with data scientists, business consultants, and software engineers to create and deploy dynamic data applications that help our customers make meaningful business decisions
- Develop and deploy robust data pipelines and end-to-end systems
- Participate in every stage of the engineering lifecycle, from ideation and requirements gathering through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Provide leadership and coordination for certain stages of the engineering lifecycle as needed
- Perform other technical tasks as needed, including writing project reports, managing, implementing, and/or maintaining technical infrastructure, etc.
- Ability and the willingness to tailor applications to a client’s business goals using an iterative methodology
- Ability to consider both long-term stability and scalability while taking a user-focused approach to development and deployment
- Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing to teammates and clients
- Ability to work independently in a collaborative, dynamic, cross-functional environment
Desired Skills
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in technical field or related field, and minimum 5-10 years’ experience OR 5+ years of experience building and deploying a system for data extraction, transformation, and loading
- Experience with Python, Java, Scala, Familiarity with R O/S: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, ssh, git
- Experience with Data manipulation, SQL, relational databases, and/or NoSWL databases including tools such as Hive and Elastic Search
- The ability to schedule and maintain jobs, working with tools like Jenkins or cron.
- Provided access to transformed data for downstream applications or visualizations in Tableau, Python, R or Kibana.
- Interacted with SQL or NoSQL databases via a programming language such as R, Python, Java, JavaScript.
- Utilized cloud resources (AWS, Microsoft, Google) to build or maintain services, especially as related to data pipelines.
- Prior exposure to modeling and/or data analysis.
- Configured a technical service such as a database, version control system, or operating system.
- Focus areas: data manipulation, big data architecture, data structures, database administration, cloud platforms and SaaS, development operations (devops), data visualization and user experience.
About Elder Research, Inc
Elder Research is a fast-growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.
Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong teamwork.
Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Elder Research is a government contractor, and our positions require US Citizenship.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Architecture AWS Big Data Consulting Consulting firm Data analysis Data Mining Data pipelines Data visualization DevOps Engineering Git Java JavaScript Kibana Linux NoSQL Pipelines Python R RDBMS Research Scala SQL Tableau Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours Flex vacation Startup environment
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