Data Engineer

Company: Ambit Group
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Ambit+Greenzone is seeking a Data Engineer in Arlington, Virginia! Our innovative customer is working to modernize the way the agency uses big data and data analytics to meet its investigative mission and objectives. The candidate will support the development of an agency wide analytics platform and the development of customized applications and tools to meet mission-focused use-cases, using cloud and primarily open source technologies. This position works within the agencies Innovation Lab, an environment for the reimagination of systems and applications that better enable the agency to accomplish its mission through creativity and collaboration. We empower our team to be creative, innovative, and use cutting edge tools and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain solutions and applications focused on data ingestion, data processing, data analytics, and ETL.
• Building data processing and ETL pipelines to automate and, perform routine ETL functions, using NiFi, leveraging microservices, enrichment, and normalization services.
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain data extraction, enrichment, and normalization solutions leveraging REST APIs or Kafka.
• Developing, testing, and maintaining software, applications, and data pipelines.
• Work collaboratively with government client, project managers, and on agile cross-functional development teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or related fields.
• Two (2) years of professional experience developing, testing, and implementing data ETL pipelines, preferably using a tool such as NiFi.
• Two (2) years of experience designing and implementing ETL solutions in medium to large enterprise systems.
• One (1) year of experience developing applications leveraging big data technologies including at least two of the following:
• ElasticSearch
• Cassandra
• JanusGraph

• H-Base

• One (1) year of experience leveraging NiFi to develop complex data pipeline and ETL processes within a large enterprise system.
• Expert level skills with:
• Java-SpringBoot
• Python

• NiFi

• Intermediate middle-tier and back-end development skillset.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and high tempo office environment on cross-functional development and project teams.

Location: Arlington, VA (Due to COVID-19, on-site client work has been suspended until further notice)

The Ambit Way

We embody the name of the firm in our culture. Our ambit, or sphere of influence, is one in which all members have a voice and all are committed to outcomes. We understand that work, family and community co-exist, when any element is out of balance, all suffer. Our policies are family-centric, provide flexible work schedules, job sharing and cross-training that meet client requirements and support our employees. We focus on more than the task at hand, we focus on the entirety of our ambit. There is no job too large and no task too low - we function as ONE.

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