Job Description

Fuel

Data Engineer (SME), McLean

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain a data pipeline architecture
• Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet mission requirements
• Identify, design, and implement 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 using AWS, SQL, NiFi technologies
• Build analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into data performance including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
• Working with mission stakeholders and assist them with data-related technical issues
• Working with technology stakeholders to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to build and optimize data sets, 'big data' data pipelines and architectures
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
• Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets
• Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, informatics, statistics, or computer science/software engineering
• Minimum of five years of experience using some of the below software and tools:
  • Big data tools like Kafka, Spark and Hadoop
  • Relational NoSQL and SQL databases including Cassandra and PostgreSQL
  • Workflow management and pipeline tools such as Airflow, Luigi and Azkaban
  • AWS close services including Redshift, RDS, EMR and EC2
  • Stream-processing systems like Spark-Streaming and Storm
  • Object function/object-oriented scripting languages including Scala, C++, Java and Python.
  • Data workflow orchestration tools including Pentahoe or Apache NiFi

About Fuel  

Fuel Consulting LLC helps clients create the path to their future.  Clients get expertise that needs no ramp-up time to deliver the best practices, customized tools, and methodologies to help them achieve their vision and leave a legacy.  If helping others and working with a team of exceptionally talented individuals excites you, then look no further than Fuel.   Fuel offers