Data Engineer

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com.

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our team and support our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customer in the Washington DC metro area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and building systems to collect and process data (and events) at massive scale. The data is used for a variety of purposes from business insights to application(s) monitoring.
• Conducts and coordinates the design and implementation of software development to meet user requirements.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines to ingest and process streaming data at massive scale.
• Performs quality assurance activities such as peer reviews.
• Support Operations and Maintenance (O&M) tasks for all application programs and assist with analyzing and troubleshooting production issues.
• Analyze business requirements and create technical specifications, develop unit test plans to verify functionality of new and/ or revised applications.
• Develops technical design specifications for application development.
• Help guide the work of Junior Data Engineers.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in complete software development lifecycle using Agile methodologies.
• 7+ years of experience with Python/Java development.
• 3+ years of experience with batch-oriented processing and streaming distributed processing methods such as Spark and Kafka.
• 3+ years of experience with data flow orchestration using tools like Airflow, Mage-AI.
• 1+ years of experience with any distributed NoSQL/Key-Value stores such as HBase.
• Experience with distributed search engines like Elasticsearch or Apache Solr is a plus.
• Restful web services experience with code development, deployment, versioning, and build tools (e.g. Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins).
• 5+ years of experience with Relational Database Systems and SQL/NoSQL.
• 1+ years of experience developing containerized applications using Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Microservices architecture, including professional experience in the design, build, and operations of micro services in a production environment.
• Experience delivering solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2, Lambdas, RDS, S3, VPC).
• Knowledge and experience in software development with the above identified technologies.
• Comprehensive problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related discipline is required.

Certificates, Licenses & Registrations:

• This federal program requires the candidates to be a United States Citizen.
• DHS Public Trust and/or DOD TS clearance is preferred.
• Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent communication, personal, and governance skills.
• Solid ability to interface, inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical individuals.
• Demonstrated experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Travel:

• This is a Hybrid position.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds
• Flexible in working extended hours.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)