Data Engineer

Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology, delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

Job Description:

The data engineer has a deep understanding of performance optimization and data pipelining. In addition to the baseline skills of a data analyst, data engineers can make raw data more useful for the enterprise.

Job Duties Include (but not limited to):

Developing, maintaining, and testing infrastructures for data generation to transform data from various structured and unstructured data sources.
• Develop complex queries to ensure accessibility while optimizing the performance of NoSQL and or big data infrastructure. Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure to support extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources. Extract data from multiple data sources, relational SQL and NoSQL databases, and other platform APIs, for data ingestion and integration.
• Configure and manage data analytic frameworks and pipelines using databases and tools such as NoSQL, SQL, HDInsight, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, GraphDB, OrientDB, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, and Pig.
• Apply distributed systems concepts and principles such as consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms.
• Administrate cloud computing and CI/CD pipelines to include Azure, Google, and Amazon Web Service (AWS).
• Coordinate with stakeholders, including product, data and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 1-year of Data Engineering experience is required
• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field with a preference towards Computer Science and Software Engineering
• Verifiable work experience with data structures, database management, distributed computing, and API driven architectures using SQL and No-SQL engines
• Proficient in modeling frameworks like Universal Modeling Language (UML), Agile Development, and Git Operations
• MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with preference towards Computer Science and Software Engineering.
• A Certified Data Management Professional certification is preferred.

Security Clearance:

• An Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is preferred, minimum of an Interim Secret clearance is required.

Benefits:

• National Health, vision and dental plans
• 20 days of PTO and 11 paid holidays
• Life Insurance
• Short - and long-term disability plans
• 401(K) retirement plan
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Relocation opportunities