Senior Data Engineer - Federal Consulting

IBM - Denver, CO

Part-time - Mid Level

Denver, CO

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. IBM is searching for a Data Engineer to support United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Cyber Operations Branch in the development and deployment of defensive cyberspace capabilities across Space mission and weapon systems. A successful candidate should have a diverse technical background and be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high performing team in an Agile, fast-paced environment. Your essential job functions will include but may not be limited to assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional requirements, identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes. You will build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources, curate and maintain data that is stored in support of metrics and evaluation, and work with developers to ensure key data points are stored in a Postgres database. Additionally, you will collaborate with data providers and back-end API developers to normalize schemas and define data flows for persistence and analytics, design, build, test, maintain, and automate data collection/pipelines, develop dashboards for data analytics, implement Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, and use Agile methodologies to develop software.

Responsibilities

• Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources.
• Curate and maintain data that is stored in support of metrics and evaluation.
• Work with developers to ensure key data points are stored in a Postgres database.
• Collaborate with data providers and back-end API developers to normalize schemas and define data flows for persistence and analytics.
• Design, build, test, maintain, and automate data collection/pipelines.
• Develop dashboards for data analytics.
• Implement Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
• Use Agile methodologies to develop software.

Requirements

• Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience as a Data Engineer/Scientist.
• Experience developing data pipelines and normalizing data.
• Experience using AWS cloud services.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database.
• Ability to work efficiently on small, distributed teams.
• Familiarity with Agile principles.
• DoD Secret clearance required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing Tableau Dashboards.
• ELK Stack Experience.
• Real-time event streaming.
• AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, Kinesis.
• Apache Spark, NiFi.
• Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with Containers (Docker, Docker Compose).
• DevSecOps utilizing test-driven development.
• Gitlab experience.
• A Top Secret (TS) security clearance (with SCI and SAP eligibility).
• Relevant DoD and/or Industry work experience in Space Systems Command.
• Experience with Cyber Operations Branch (SSC/SZYO) program office.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being.
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs.
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs.
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals.
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences.