Data Engineer Analyst

Data Engineer Analyst – 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 Data Engineer Analyst, 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 
• Ability and the willingness to tailor applications to a client’s business goals using an iterative methodology  
• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing to teammates and clients 
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time
• Problem-solving aptitude 
• Data fluency including data manipulation, data understanding and the ability to identify issues with data.
• Familiarity with data transformation (ETL) – aggregations, transformations, loading (academic or brief experience).
• Interacted with SQL or NoSQL databases via a programming language such as R, Python, Java, JavaScript 
• Understanding of databases and database designs
• Perform other technical tasks as needed, including writing project reports, managing, implementing, and/or maintaining technical infrastructure, etc. 

Desired Skills:

• Experience with data wrangling, dashboards and visualization of large datasets using commercial or open-source tools (Ex. Apache Hive, Elastic Search and Kibana, Tableau)  

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in technical or related field, and 1 years’ experience OR  3+ years of relevant experience 

About Elder Research, Inc.

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics and machine learning. Elder Research has been in the data science business for over 20 years providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies and organizations across numerous industries. At Elder Research, you’ll be part of a fun, friendly community. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates that are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work ethic. 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.

Achieving success on defense, intelligence and security projects requires a data science team with broad experience, critical thinking, a proven ability to solve complex problems, and the ability to effectively communicate results. Our scientists conduct analysis in a collaborative environment that frequently brings together the expertise of decision-makers, analysts, agents, investigators, and even behavioral scientists. Our team relies on well-trained technical personnel who have experience with tools, algorithms, best practices, and custom software development to navigate the frontier of unsolved problems we typically encounter. Our team enjoys great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of analytic techniques and tools.

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.