Ecs Services - Fairfax, VA
posted 2 months ago
ECS is seeking a passionate and driven Data Engineer - Unstructured Data to work remotely, supporting the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Data Services Branch under the Office of the Chief Information Officer. This role is pivotal in providing innovative and complex data analytics services and platforms to users. As a Data Engineer, you will be motivated by the challenge of solving complex business and immigration problems through data exploration and analysis. The ideal candidate will be a critical thinker and a perpetual learner, eager to gain exposure and build skillsets across a range of technologies while addressing some of our clients' toughest challenges. In this position, you will play an integral role in the data operations for the development and integration of multiple data types across various datasets and sources. Your responsibilities will include supporting operations and research necessary to answer critical questions that have direct implications on policy decisions. We are looking for a candidate with strong modeling expertise who is highly motivated and enthusiastic about implementing new technologies to serve our customers effectively. You will contribute to the development of research approaches to complex policy problems, execute key project tasks such as data collection, data analysis, tool design, and other analytic tasks within your area of substantive training or experience. You will apply a broad range of quantitative and/or qualitative research tools, methods, and skills to support complex research activities and project management needs. Additionally, you will complete development efforts across the data pipeline to store, manage, and provision data to consumers, while being an active and collaborative member of an Agile/Scrum team, adhering to Agile/Scrum best practices. Your role will also involve writing code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing, supporting continuous process automation for data ingestion, and advocating for lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing. Collaboration with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements will also be a key part of your responsibilities.