Job Summary:
Govini is a company that transforms Defense Acquisition into a software-driven strategic advantage for the United States. They are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to help replace manual processes with data-driven solutions, focusing on data management and governance standards to support informed decision-making for government markets.
Responsibilities:
• Define and lead Govini's data lifecycle strategy across data acquisition, data ingestion, data cleansing, normalization and linkage.
• Ensure key entities within datasets are identified, resolved and linked to existing entities within the current master data repository.
• Apply various techniques to produce solutions to large-scale optimization problems, including data pre-processing, indexing, blocking, field and record comparison and classification.
• Improve data sharing, increase data repurposing and improve cost efficiency associated with data management efforts.
• Build best practices that help with chain of custody of data so it can be easily traced back to the source for accuracy and consistency.
• Work across functional teams to understand advanced statistical, machine learning, and text processing models and incorporate them into Govini’s existing data engineering infrastructure.
• Perform exploratory data analyses, generate and test working hypotheses, prepare and analyze historical data and identify patterns.
• Work directly with users as well as SMEs to establish, create and populate optimal data architectures and structures, as well as articulate techniques and results using non-technical language.
Qualifications:
Required:
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related technical field
• 3-5 years experience with programmatically transforming data
• Experience with RDBMS
• Advanced SQL programming skills
• Proficient usage of common data formats such as CSV, XML, and JSON
• Requires strong analytical ability and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently with little supervision
• A burning desire to tackle hard problems and create sustainable solutions
Preferred:
• Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience using Amazon Web Services
• Working knowledge with large (multiple terabytes) amounts of data
Company:
Govini is a software company that transforms defense acquisition and national-security decision-making through data, analytics, and AI. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.