Job#: 3052157 Job Description:Systems Engineer MID - App Services NEN Tools Mgmt
Location: Norfolk, Virginia (Onsite)
Role Overview
The Data Engineer designs, builds, integrates, and sustains secure enterprise data solutions that enable analytics, reporting, and informed decision-making. The position develops scalable data pipelines, integrates data from diverse sources, improves data quality and availability, and supports cloud and on-premises platforms in a mission-critical environment. This role will contribute to modernization activities in an Agile/DevOps operating culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that collect, transform, validate, and deliver data from enterprise systems.
- Build and optimize data models, schemas, tables, views, and curated data sets that support analytics and business intelligence.
- Develop data-processing solutions using SQL, Python, and other approved technologies.
- Integrate cloud and on-premises data platforms while supporting secure data movement, interoperability, and performance.
- Implement automated data-quality checks, reconciliation controls, monitoring, and exception handling.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data discrepancies, and performance degradation; perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
- Partner with stakeholders to define data requirements, source-to-target mappings, and transformation rules.
- Apply data governance, security, and privacy requirements throughout the data lifecycle.
- Support platform upgrades, data migrations, modernization initiatives, and performance tuning.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in Agile planning, technical reviews, demonstrations, and incident response.
Required Qualifications
- Requires a B.S. Degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience in a related technical discipline. Additional directly related experience may be considered in place of a degree.
- Must possess and maintain an IAT Level II certification.
- Must be located in or able to work onsite in either San Diego, California; the Hampton Roads, Virginia area; or Jacksonville, FL.
- At least three years of hands-on experience developing, operating, or supporting production data pipelines, data integrations, or data warehouses.
- Demonstrated proficiency with SQL and at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python.
- Experience with ETL/ELT concepts, relational data structures, data modeling, and schema design.
- Experience integrating data from multiple source types, including relational databases, APIs, and flat files.
- Working knowledge of cloud and on-premises infrastructure concepts, authentication, network connectivity, and encryption.
- Experience diagnosing production data issues, analyzing logs, and resolving performance problems.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a high-tempo operational environment.
- Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, and Ansible, with practical familiarity using AI-enabled tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Business intelligence experience, including development or support of dashboards and reports; experience with Microsoft Power BI is desirable.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification.
- Hands-on experience with Azure data and analytics services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, or Synapse Analytics.
- Familiarity with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
- Experience using automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Bitbucket.
- Experience designing or supporting data solutions in federal government or other regulated environments.
- Experience with modern data-platform concepts like data lakes, dimensional modeling, or streaming data.
- Experience implementing data cataloging, lineage, and role-based access controls.
- Relevant technical certifications in Azure, data engineering, database administration, or analytics.
- Experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) and query languages such as Cypher.
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or semantic data models.
- Experience with entity resolution and reconciling conflicting values across multiple sources.
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