Data Engineering Manager (AWS GovCloud) - REMOTE

$140,899 - $189,750/Yr

GD Information Technology, Inc. - Amelia Court House, VA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Amelia Court House, VA

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Data Engineer Sr Manager at GDIT, you will lead a team of engineers in delivering transformative solutions to clients' big-data challenges. Your role will involve managing the design, development, testing, and maintenance of both on-premises and cloud solutions, focusing on data capture, transformation, validation, and reporting. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to support data infrastructure needs and ensure operational support for critical missions related to biometric identity management for the Department of Homeland Security.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineers engaged in design, development, test, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud solutions focused on data capture, transformation, validation, and distribution/reporting/publishing.
• Collaborate with teams to transform data and integrate models into automated processes.
• Work with stakeholders including program, product, data, and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support data infrastructure needs.
• Manage team's production O&M support, including scheduled and on-call 24x7 support.
• Engage program staff and other OBIM contractors on support needs.
• Communicate project and work status to senior program leadership and customer.
• Proactively identify and propose solutions to improve existing system architectures.
• Schedule staff to obtain proper response in a timely manner.
• Foster a learning environment within the team to mitigate skill and knowledge gaps.

Requirements

• MS degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related field.
• Experience managing the development and/or maintenance of all life cycle phases in Data Warehousing projects.
• Experience performing or managing O&M of on-premise or cloud-hosted federal IT enterprise systems.
• Database experience with Oracle and DB2 on-premise.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud data storage/management services (Redshift, Aurora, RDS Oracle, S3, Spectrum).
• Experience administering or managing data migration and transformation tools (ETL/ELT tools on-premise, Informatica, cloud, Glue/Visual Glue/Brew, DMS).
• Experience administering or managing Data Manipulation tools (SQL, Athena).
• Adept at problem-solving, troubleshooting, collaboration, time management, multi-tasking, and task-ownership/leadership.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, organization and documentation skills, and requirements analysis skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Technical team management in a data center/O&M contract.
• Proven ability to manage remote staff, documentation efforts, and data migration, data transformation and/or modernization projects.
• Degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field of study.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Informatica ETL software, Oracle & Redshift databases.
• Experience in DevOps and Agile development and/or methodologies.

Benefits

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• 401K with company match.
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
• Paid vacation and holidays.