Description
Job Description:
Leidos seeks a data engineer to provide programming support for loading large volume data collections into a variety of data holding areas both on premises and in the cloud. The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative, cross disciplinary team of data scientists, data engineers, and applications developers to deliver mission critical analytics support to our customer.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Analyze new data collections and determine optimal data ingest processes
- Create and maintain NiFi Schemas for new and existing data feeds
- Develop tools or modify existing ones to preprocess, modify, aggregate, load, index, and archive data collections into clusters and AWS in near real time
- Implement all proper access controls
- Generate metrics to track data ingest optimization and ensure data integrity and provenance are maintained
- Document data flows
Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and minimum of 20-25 years experience OR a Master's degree and at least 15-20 years of experience, or a Doctorate with 13-16 years experience
- Must have a TS/SCI with Poly to be considered
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems engineering, or closely related discipline
- Extensive experience in Extract-Transform-Load processes
- Demonstrated extensive experience with cloud services (AWS strongly preferred)
- Demonstrated experience with cloud based database services such as Databricks and EMR
- Understanding of SQL database structures and mapping data structures between different SQL databases
- Knowledge of API development techniques
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience with AWS long-term storage options
- Experience with NiFi strongly preferred, but would train if candidate has experience in Java or using Pentaho
- Experience working with a Hadoop cluster
- Familiarity with open source data engineering tools and processes
- Experience designing for intelligence applications
Pay Range:
Pay Range - -Covid Guidance
In order to enter Leidos facilities in the U.S. and to attend Leidos events outside our facilities, employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or maintain proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 96 hours of entry. In addition, we are receiving guidance from certain customers that onsite contractor personnel will need to be fully vaccinated to access customer facilities. If you are not vaccinated, please consider getting your COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact your Talent Acquisition POC.
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
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Commitment to Diversity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
