ECS is seeking a passionate and driven Senior Data Engineer to support an effort under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Chief Data Officer. In this role you will collaborate with customers, often engaging directly with non-technical personnel to understand their data related needs, propose solutions, and complete work in an efficient manner.
The Senior Data Engineer performs activities associated with implementation, integration, and support of computer systems in mission-critical response operations environment and requires the development of innovative and complex data solutions, and visualizations to users. In this role you will also collaborate with the ECS technical leads to provide guidance on the overall app design, its integration with current technical stacks and the approvals of new features.
This individual must be able to build and maintain data models, engineer data architectures, and develop data integrations such as extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows and data visualization. Additionally, this individual must work closely with other architecture and engineering developers and experts to establish best practices for data analysis, modeling, designing, and building business information systems.
The Senior Data Engineer will require technical knowledge in building and integrating solutions across multiple technologies and lines of business. The ideal candidate is expected to be focused, action-oriented, an effective communicator and a self-starter, capable of working independently and in a team environment.
Responsibilities Include
- Lead an enterprise data team in re-engineering data modules including design, model building, and establishing pipelines and workflows, to implement and maintain complex highly visible data platforms including the development of a new knowledge graph.
- Collaborate with technology and business teams to develop robust, flexible, and scalable data architectures.
- Develop and maintain data processing systems, infrastructure, and API integrations.
- Collaborate with data engineers from DHS headquarters and components to develop, test and troubleshoot data pipelines to feed into the knowledge graph.
- Advocate for and implement lean-agile engineering principles such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing.
- Develop and curate knowledge graphs from diverse data sources in collaboration with the technical team.
- Document and present critical information to stakeholders promoting the future state of the data platform as necessary.