Data Engineer

Top Reasons to work with us

Our team is sought after by leadership and peers to work their most ambiguous ideas and challenges due to our high degree of out of the box thinking, willingness to try something new, and no fear of failure. Our success is driven by every member of the team government and contractors alike striving to do the best they can. We work across the entire MDA Engineering Enterprise working to strengthen and enable every element and component.

What you will be doing

This position provides data engineering support to enhance the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering Enterprise program office looking to employ modern digital engineering and data science approaches across the lifecycle and connecting engineering, test, business, contract, and finance data of different types together. The Data Engineer works with MDA engineers to capture and understand both authoritative data and non-authoritative data, its meaning, and relation to other data and how to meaningfully use it to develop data stories that can be automated. This position will identify potential improvements to data sources themselves, collection methods, processes and supporting systems. The position participates in the development of an enterprise-wide system-of-systems engineering effort between the element weapon system program offices and the MDS system offices ensuring that the program offices are integrated and aligned working with weapon system prime contractors to deliver capability.

Analysis of engineering and program office activities to help identify ways to apply digital transformation practices.

Facilitating adoption of data engineering processes across MDA Engineering Enterprise in the Digital Engineering and Software Development DevSecOps functional areas.

Responsible for building data pipelines to pull together data from different source systems.

Works closely with data managers, systems engineers, and IT Services to understand architectural path between data sources and sinks across the organization.

Assist in making data easily accessible and optimized for organizational use.

In addition, the data engineer will assist Product and Data Owners to refine their data usage and provide organizational implementation strategy, training, and metrics.

Job Requirements

What you need

Degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical data intensive discipline plus 10-15 years of directly related experience. Additional relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree

Practical experience as a data engineer or working engineering data intensive analysis of systems who understands the needs between software engineers, data scientist, and other data workers

Experience with accessing and structuring data (SQL, Python) and production database development in a Business Unit or larger scope (Relational SQL, Non-Relational DBs)

Experiencing creating fully automated end to end Data Pipelines and tools involved (e.g., Airflow, NiFi)

Knowledge of Cloud technologies - experience with hybrid cloud data provisioning a plus

Knowledge of and experience in the MDA Systems engineering lifecycle processes

Software development experience across the development lifecycle

Desire to have experience documenting and standardizing processes into commonly accessible digital methods

Excellent problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a group

Ability to effectively participate and collaborate with functionally and geographically diverse teams of engineering professionals with differing perspectives, skills, and backgrounds

Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders and non-agile data trained people, both in written and spoken forms

Ability to provide significant contribution in the areas of creative thinking, problem solving, analytical thinking, strategic thinking and out-of-the-box thinking

Energetic, motivated, self-starting

What would be helpful

Understanding of the MDS system implementation. Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets utilizing software tools. Experience in test analysis of missile defense in the areas of Link-16, Aegis, THAAD, GMD, C2BMC, AN/TPY-2, Overhead Sensors, and/or Patriot desired

Experience in evaluating system performance, enhancing system operations and data processing

Previous experience in any of the MDS element or subcomponents activities

Experience working with systems-of-systems or family-of-systems, preferably in a DoD context

Experience in the use and analysis of data for complex systems, preferable for the MDS

Ability to lead functionally and geographically dispersed teams of engineering professionals with differing perspectives, skills, and backgrounds

What's in it for you

Excellent benefits and compensation

Exciting team and technology

Expression and creativity are the norm here

Security Clearance Requirements:

Position requires that candidate possess or be able to acquire an active SECRET security clearance to access classified information. Inability to maintain a security clearance will result in candidate being ineligible to support this position.

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