Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CGS Federal is a company dedicated to solving government challenges through innovative technology solutions. They are seeking a passionate Data Engineer to support their Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform, helping federal customers turn data into actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers
- Being an active and collaborating member of an Agile/Scrum team and following all Agile/Scrum best practices
- Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing
- Support continuous process automation for data ingest
- Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
- Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements
- Help cultivate an environment that promotes customer service excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork
- Collaborate with others as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
Skills
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
- 7+ years of IT experience including experience in design, management, and solutioning of large, complex data sets and models
- Experience with developing data pipelines from many sources from structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats
- Proficiency in developing ETL processes, and performing test and validation steps
- Proficiency to manipulate data (Python, R, SQL, SAS)
- Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies
- Strong understanding of the agile principles and ability to apply them
- Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and ability to apply them
- Experience with relational database, such as, PostgreSQL
- Work comfortably in version control systems, such as, Git Repositories
- Experience creating and consuming APIs
- Experience with DHS and knowledge of DHS standards a plus
- Candidates will be given special consideration for extensive experience with Python
- Ability to develop visualizations utilizing Tableau or PowerBI
- Experience in developing Shell scripts on Linux
- Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
- Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and communicate technical terms to non-technical audiences
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
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