Senior Data Engineer

JDSAT, Inc. is seeking experienced data engineers to contribute to the design and buildout of data architecture to support advanced analytics services for federal clients. Applicants should have experience building enterprise-grade data ingestion solutions and, ideally, on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services.

At JDSAT, you will be joining a collaborative and energetic team with excellent career development opportunities. You will sharpen your knowledge on challenging projects with a great deal of autonomy while operating alongside other talented Operations Research and Data Science professionals. We like to cultivate our talent and promote from within by offering a variety of leadership and advancement opportunities throughout the company. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package along with a commitment to a healthy work/life balance and meaningful work to support our employees and our clients.

Responsibilities

• Assess, analyze, and organize raw data
• Prepare data for use in simulation, optimization, or data science tools
• Combine information from many disparate sources, conduct data validation/verification, and store the data in a manner that enables database users to intuitively join information across multiple domains
• Leverage industry best practices across all relevant levels of the technology stack to include the version control system, ETL processes, and the use of AWS cloud products
• Identify opportunities for new data acquisition
• Interface with source data in a variety of different forms including APIs, flat file extracts, direct database querying, etc.
• Apply strong attention to detail to identify errors or data quality concerns and communicate with customers in a professional manner
• Act as liaison between data owners and data consumers to evaluate business needs and objectives and help data consumers understand the art of the possible
• Design data auditing and data control processes to monitor the status and health of enterprise data system

Requirements

Required Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Data Analysis, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field with minimum of 8 years' experience working or a combination of postgraduate studies and working in a technical field as described above.
• Ability to assess and profile raw data and reassemble raw data from multiple sources into a single, enterprise model
• Ability to work in a consulting role, building technology and communicating with end-users and customers of varying levels of technical capability
• Ability to produce high-quality, professional documentation and communication materials
• Ability to build and deploy team-friendly code in SQL

Desired Skills and Abilities

• Master's degree in Analytics, Data Analysis, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field
• Ability to build and deploy team-friendly code written in Python and R
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience leveraging cloud platforms to build secure and scalable data infrastructure
• Experience building batch or streaming data ingestion pipelines

Benefits

At JDSAT Inc., you will be joining a collaborative and energetic team with excellent career development opportunities. You will sharpen your knowledge on challenging projects with a great deal of autonomy while operating alongside other talented Operations Research, Data Science, and Management professionals. We like to cultivate our talent and promote from within by offering a variety of leadership and advancement opportunities throughout the company. We offer: above-market salaries; a competitive benefits package; a commitment to achieving the right work/life balance; and meaningful work to improve our employees and our clients.

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

We are proud of our diverse environment, EOE, M/F/Disability/Vet. Strive for excellence with JDSAT Inc.!