Data Engineer

CGS Federal is a company focused on providing innovative solutions to federal customers through data analytics and business intelligence. They are seeking a passionate Data Engineer to support their growing platform by developing data pipelines, collaborating with Agile teams, and ensuring data reliability and performance.

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

Requirements:

• 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