Staff Data Engineer

Description

About Us 

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that works across government, partnering with our clients to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans, ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veterans to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that courageously equip Federal agencies with solutions to transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.
 

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.  
• Support software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects.  
• Creates new pipeline development and maintains existing pipeline, updates Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) process, creates new ETL feature development, builds PoCs with Redshift Spectrum, Databricks, etc.; 
• Implements, with support of project data specialists, large dataset engineering: data augmentation, data quality analysis, data analytics (anomalies and trends), data profiling, data algorithms, and (measure/develop) data maturity models and develop data strategy recommendations. 
• Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements 
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including re-designing data infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes ? 
• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies 
• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition? 
• Working with stakeholders including data, design, product and government stakeholders and assisting them with data-related technical issues 
• Write unit and integration tests for all data processing code. 
• Work with DevOps engineers on CI, CD, and IaC. 
• Read specs and translate them into code and design documents. 
• Perform code reviews and develop processes for improving code quality. 

Requirements

Required Qualifications: 

• Minimum of 8 years related experience. 
• 7 + years of hands-on software development experience 
• 4+ years of Data pipeline experience using Python, Java and cloud technologies 
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With ten years of general information technology experience and at least eight years of specialized experience, a degree is NOT required. 
• Expert data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up.  
• Self-sufficient and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. 
• Experienced in designing data architecture for shared services, scalability, and performance 
• Experienced in designing data services including API, meta data, and data catalogue.  
• Experienced in data governance process to ingest (batch, stream), curate, and share data with upstream and downstream data users. 
• Ability to build and optimize data sets, ‘big data’ data pipelines and architectures? 
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions? 
• Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets? 
• Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata 
• Demonstrated understanding and experience using software and tools including big data tools like Kafka, Spark and Hadoop; relational NoSQL and SQL databases including Cassandra and Postgres; workflow management and pipeline tools such as Airflow, Luigi and Azkaban; AWS cloud services including Redshift, RDS, EMR and EC2; stream-processing systems like Spark-Streaming and Storm; and object function/object-oriented scripting languages including Scala, C++, Java and Python.? 
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary. 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment  
• Experience with Agile methodology, using test-driven development. 
• Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence. 
• Excellent command of written and spoken English. 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; residing in the United States 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Federal Government contracting work experience. 
• Google’s Certified Professional-Data-Engineer certification, IBM Certified Data Engineer – Big Data certification, CCP Data Engineer for Cloudera 
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or Health Care Industry experience 
• Experience with healthcare quality data including Medicaid and CHIP provider data, beneficiary data, claims data, and quality measure data. 

Working Environment:
eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by your manager. 

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 25% per year. 

Benefits: 

We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits.
 
Equal Employment Opportunity:
eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. 

*Resumes can also be emailed to recruiting@esimplicity.com