Data Engineer

SciTec; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SciTec, located in Princeton, NJ, is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Project Control team. The successful candidate will design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructures that support project and resource management across the company.

This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 3 years of experience in data engineering or software development. Candidates must be proficient in Python and familiar with AWS and Kubernetes for cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or software development.
• Experience with complex data formats (JSON, XML) and various database designs.
• Ability to orchestrate automated deployments using Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data-driven infrastructure for resource management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements for analytics use cases.
• Develop and maintain robust data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.

Skills

Python

UI programming (JavaScript/TypeScript)

Data pipeline development

Cloud services (AWS)

Kubernetes

Data management (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. SciTec cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of employee work visas of any type. Further, U.S. citizenship is a requirement to obtain and keep a security clearance. Applicants that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

SciTec is seeking a Data Engineer to work as part of our Project Control team to design, build, and maintain a scalable infrastructure for company wide resource and project management. The ideal candidate is passionate about data, technology, and automation and has a strong technical background in data engineering, with a combination of technical and business skills and a demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining a scalable data driven resource planning and management infrastructure used for collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing business and project execution data
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, and project control specialists to define requirements and features to meet operational objectives and to support analytics use cases
• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading structured and unstructured data from various sources into data storage systems
• Manage and optimize data storage solutions, including databases, operational data stores, and data warehouses, to ensure high performance, reliability, and security
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and infrastructure through optimization, tuning, and capacity planning
• Document data pipelines, infrastructure configurations, and best practices for data engineering standards, ensuring knowledge sharing and team collaboration
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence/Analytics, or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience in data engineering or software development
• Development experience in Python and working knowledge of UI programming languages (i.e., JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Experience working with complex data objects in various formats like JSON, XML and across different DB designs like PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Orchestrate automated deployments across development, test, and production environments using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
• Experience with AWS and deploying to cloud services