Data Engineer

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech, you'll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and client-oriented Data Engineer to join our team in Herndon, VA. This is a Hybrid position.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Analyze large and disparate data sets to understand their structures, assess suitability for use in developing and operating predictive models and other AI solutions, and recommend updates to better support this use.

• Develop large volume data sets sourced from multitude of relational tables to allow data analysts and scientists to construct training sets for machine learning models and recurring reports and dashboards.

• Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and architects to design and implement data structures, data management, and data governance for analytics, data science, and AI-based systems.

• Engage in data analysis, problem solving, investigation, and creative thinking with large to massive data sets to support a variety of analytic scenarios.

• Create robust and resilient data pipelines to connect data sources to analytic and AI tools and solutions.

• Respond to data queries and analysis requests as needed to support analytic and AI projects and solution development. Create and publish regularly scheduled and/or ad hoc reports as needed.

• Collaborate with client to assist in creating, managing, and optimizing Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) jobs and workflows.

• Assist with the implementation of data migration/pipelines from on-prem to cloud storage platforms.

• Contribute data engineering to solution accelerators, prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and methods for use in client engagements.

• Participate in design thinking or other solution-based methods to solve problems consisting of various qualitative activities that support the generation of insightful, human-centered and impactful design solutions.

• Perform knowledge elicitation from client of business problem details relative to data requirements and incorporate that knowledge into data structures, management, governance, and processes.

• Identify AI and data science challenges in non-AI projects to enhance the projects' capabilities.

• Support collection of data needed for analytic and AI solutions.

• Participate in solution development through whiteboarding sessions with clients, partners, and coworkers.

• Contribute to solutions with data storage, data structures, data manipulation tasks, data governance, or other technical challenges related to data engineering.

• Communicate findings to diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders and engage client to distill complex technical language.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field and 7 years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree and 5 years of experience or equivalent experience.

• In depth knowledge with one or more cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Oracle, IBM, Azure and GCP) and experience working across environments and on premise.

• Strong experience constructing and performing complex database search queries.

• Proficiency in SQL.

• Knowledge of data extraction, transformation, normalization, enrichment, correlation, storage, and API development and integration.

• Strong knowledge of the full data ETL pipeline, including data retrieval

• Strong experience with data modeling.

• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.

• Experience working with various file formats such as JSON, XML or similar.

• Experience with programming or scripting

• Effective research, analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in a related field.

• Experience with analyzing and reporting on diverse data.

• Ability to be a self-starter and take initiative.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including client-facing discussions and presentations.

• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools

• Strong collaboration with others working on related and complementary areas

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have an active Secret clearance (TS preferred) with ability to obtain TS/SCI with polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time

• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and clients, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

ManTech International Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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