Data Engineer-Senior

Job Description

Description

The Vanguard 2.2.1 contract currently has an opening for a Senior Data Engineer to support the Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Directorate. This program develops leading-edge technologies and delivers innovative solutions to the DoS. SAIC is seeking a highly qualified Data Architect/Scientist to support the various initiatives; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, consolidation and centralized data lake for various Splunk platforms, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS initiatives within the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud environments. The preferred candidate will develop solutions utilizing quantitative analysis, predictive analytics, data modeling, data lake design, and machine learning in support of the DoS mission. The position may allow temporary remote work due to Covid-19.  Position may be called back onsite at any time at the customer's request.

Description of Duties

• Responsible for providing technical leadership for Enterprise level Splunk deployments, both on prem and cloud-based services.
• Providing in-depth subject matter expertise for engineering support related tasks
• Directly work with customers to meet their data requirements objectives
• Develop architecture and use cases to help customers meet their data requirements objectives
• Responsible for presenting solutions/technologies to senior government officials
• Ability to independently apply a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures
• Responsible for designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of mode state-of-the art information system
• Responsible for analyzing available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them across a broad range of stakeholders

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree plus nine (9) years of related IT, Data Architect, and/or systems engineering experience; Master’s degree plus seven (7) years of experience; OR may accept additional experience in lieu of degree
• Experience in applying Database Design, Data Lake, and Data Mining principles within virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiar with Big Data Architecture (Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark), distributed system, data warehousing (example:  Apache Hive), and Data Lakes
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service within at least one of the 3 major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, or Microsoft)
• Strong Technical Skills in MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB
• Programming languages - XML, JavaScript, Python, Json
• Strong development, debugging, testing and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Data Analytics platforms such as Splunk and Tableau
• Experience with data modeling, predictive analytics, quantitative analysis, data lake design, machine learning
• Experience with modern API configurations
• Experience with database security hardening processes in a Government environment
• Experience with shell scripting
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, DevOps process
• Proficient working within Windows and Linux Operating Systems

Required Clearance

• US Citizenship
• Active Secret clearance with eligibility to obtain Top Secret clearance. 

Desired Skills

• Team oriented approach and capable of working independently
• Mission/customer driven solution architect
• Ability to integrate customer vision/mission with emerging technologies
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.