Senior Data Engineer

We are looking for seasoned Senior Data Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Senior Data Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving. 

• Build and manage data pipelines and data models
• Prepare data for downstream analytics and reporting
• Support reporting and visualization needs
• Lead and architect migration of data environments with performance and reliability.
• Assess and understand the ETL jobs, workflows, BI tools, and reports
• Address technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products
• Experience in crafting database / data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS. Alternatively Azure, GCP).
• Key must have skill sets – Python, AWS
• Support an Agile software development lifecycle

• Ability to hold a position of Public Trust with the US government
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience
  • OR Master's degree and 8 years of experience
• 5-7 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems.  
• 5-7 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as: 
  • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc. 
  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. 
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc. 
  • AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents) 
  • Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. 
  • Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch 
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc. 

• Strong SQL and data modeling experience
• Experience with data warehousing/lake architectures
• Hands-on experience with reporting tools (Power BI or similar)
• Ability to translate business needs into usable data structures

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $125,000 to $165,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Identity Statement

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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.