Senior Data Engineer

Job#: 3050070

Job Description:

Senior Data Engineer

Location: Huntsville, Alabama (Onsite)

Clearance: Candidates must have a minimum of an active Top Secret

Role Overview

As a Data Engineer, you will help build technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on mission-driven projects. You will deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced environment, using your experience in analytical exploration and data examination to manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing data warehouse or data lake, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for software systems.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows, and parsing structured, unstructured, or event-streaming data.
• 5+ years of experience with coding in software programming languages, including SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
• Experience performing tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
• Experience with data management solutions that address aspects of data catalog, data usage, governance policies, and lifecycle management.
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems, or 12+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing large-scale enterprise data and analytics systems.
• 3+ years of experience using and developing data systems with AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud data products such as AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Azure Dataverse, Azure Data Factory, and Power Apps.
• Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, AirFlow, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Experience with federal information system policies, including NIST 800.53 and FISMA, data security, access controls, and data protection techniques.
• Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks, and automating CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins or GitHub.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch, Solr, MongoDB, or Cosmo DB.
• Experience with AI or ML pipelines and processes.
• Master's degree.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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