Senior Data Engineer

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo an IBM company is an industry-leading award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo we specialize in providing agile software engineering user experience design cloud services and digital strategy services that address government’s most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you’ll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you’ll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times Octo is an employer of choice!

As a Senior Data Engineer at Octo you will work closely with architects data scientists engineers and integrators to assess customer requirements and to design and support our team to unlock insights from the massive amounts of data within the Veterans Affairs ecosystem. You will be tasked with overall onboarding operationalizing administration and maintenance of key big data/data science/machine learning platforms like Databricks and other cutting-edge technologies. Previous experience with Veterans Affairs and/or health/clinical data is a major plus.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with not for our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

This program within the Department of Veterans Affairs will provide a cross-functional team capable of developing data products for emergent enterprise requirements by leveraging the toolset available on the Summit Data Platform. This team will provide responsive support for emerging data and analytics needs that originate from executive leadership and VA offices across the enterprise. These data integration and data insights will help solve emergent challenges for the Department in response to changing laws regulations and needs for reporting to external entities and ultimately will provide better support to the veterans.

Responsibilities…

• Participates in design development operationalization and maintenance of products and solutions in a cutting-edge and next generation technologies.
• Develops and maintains documentation on various operational and design aspects of the Platform. Assist in troubleshooting issues and resolving them.
• Builds awareness increases knowledge and drives adoption of modern technologies sharing user and engineering benefits to gain buy-in.
• Effectively communicates with and influences key stakeholders across the enterprise at all levels of the organization.
• Operates as a trusted advisor for technology platform or capability domain helping to shape use cases and implementation in a unified manner.
• Optimizes data structures data processing and data quality to support predictive and machine learning models in production applications.
• Serves as a technical consultant to implement Analytics solutions and produce Data Domain ETL Scripts.
• Uses PowerBI/dashboards to support problem identification and resolution.

Years of Experience: Must have 6-10 years of data engineering and data analytics experience.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area OR 8 years of additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree. Master’s degree preferred.

Location: Remote within the United States.

Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 6-10 years of professional experience in data engineering disciplines.
• At least 5 years of experience with Microsoft database and BI technologies.
• Experience defining and implementing strategies for extracting transforming and loading data from multiple data sources into analytic data stores
• Knowledge of Cloud Data Analytics platforms
• Must have programming in PowerShell Python SQL.
• Must have cloud data storage formats experience such as Parquet Avro.
• Complex data transformation techniques.
• Able to test data integrity and develop tests and quality checks.
• Prepare data for various types of data analysis: descriptive diagnostic predictive prescriptive.
• Performance analysis and tuning experience
• Experience with Data Warehouse or Big Data solutions
• Experience with ML models
• Experienced with data modeling and database design.
• Experience with Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Data Factory Azure SQL DW Azure Synapse Databricks Spark and/or Python
• Strong communication interpersonal and collaboration skills working in a team-oriented environment
• Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and/or other federal organizations.
• Experience supporting healthcare clients and/or leveraging healthcare data
• Advanced SQL NoSQL query and scripting. Experience with Python Java.
• Experience with relational database systems (i.e. DB2 SQL Server) and non-relational databases such as (Azure SQL Amazon RDBS MongoDB Hadoop tools).
• Understanding of data design concepts (i.e. data modeling data mapping OLTP and OLAP).
• Experience modeling data message and service interoperability.
• Azure PowerShell knowledge.