Data Engineer

Overview

Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

Job Description:

The data engineer has a deep understanding of performance optimization and data pipelining. In addition to the baseline skills of a data analyst, data engineers can make raw data more useful for the enterprise.

Job Duties Include (but not limited to):

• Developing, maintaining, and testing infrastructures for data generation to transform data from various structured and unstructured data sources.
• Develop complex queries to ensure accessibility while optimizing the performance of NoSQL and or big data infrastructure. Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure to support extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources. Extract data from multiple data sources, relational SQL and NoSQL databases, and other platform APIs, for data ingestion and integration.
• Configure and manage data analytic frameworks and pipelines using databases and tools such as NoSQL, SQL, HDInsight, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, GraphDB, OrientDB, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, and Pig.
• Apply distributed systems concepts and principles such as consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms.
• Administrate cloud computing and CI/CD pipelines to include Azure, Google, and Amazon Web Service (AWS).
• Coordinate with stakeholders, including product, data and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 1-year of Data Engineering experience is required
• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field with a preference towards Computer Science and Software Engineering
• Verifiable work experience with data structures, database management, distributed computing, and API driven architectures using SQL and No-SQL engines
• Proficient in modeling frameworks like Universal Modeling Language (UML), Agile Development, and Git Operations
• MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with preference towards Computer Science and Software Engineering.
• A Certified Data Management Professional certification is preferred.

Security Clearance: 

• An Active Secret clearance is required

Benefits:

• National Health, vision and dental plans
• 20 days of PTO and 11 paid holidays
• Life Insurance
• Short – and long-term disability plans
• 401(K) retirement plan
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Relocation opportunities

Iron EagleX is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.