Senior Data Engineer

Steampunk; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is looking for a Senior Data Engineer in McLean, Virginia, to lead the migration of data environments and develop enterprise-grade data platforms. Candidates should have 5-7 years of experience in Data Engineering and strong skills in Python and AWS. The salary range is $125,000 to $165,000. Steampunk offers a comprehensive benefits package and is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of industry experience coding commercial software.
• 5-7 years of direct experience in Data Engineering.
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases.
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect migration of data environments.
• Assess and understand ETL jobs, workflows, and BI tools.
• Address technical inquiries concerning data products.
• Contribute to the growth of the Data Exploitation Practice.

Skills

Python

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Postgres

Cassandra

Airflow

SQL

Java

Scala

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS EMR

AWS RDS

AWS Redshift

Job description

Overview

We are looking for seasoned Senior Data Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Senior Data Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

Contributions

• Lead and architect migration of data environments with performance and reliability.
• Assess and understand the ETL jobs, workflows, BI tools, and reports.
• Address technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products.
• Experience in crafting database / data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS. Alternatively Azure, GCP).
• Key must have skill sets – Python, AWS.
• Support an Agile software development lifecycle.
• You will contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice!

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
• 5-7 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems.
• 5-7 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as:
  • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents)
  • Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring and optimization (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis.
• Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment.
• Experience with data modeling tools and process.
• Experience architecting data systems (transactional and warehouses).
• Experience aggregating results and/or compiling information for reporting from multiple datasets.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models.

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $125,000 to $165,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.