Junior Data Engineer

Overview

As a Junior Data Engineer you will help develop and deploy technical solutions to solve our customers' hardest problems, using various platforms to integrate data, transform insights, and build first-class applications for operational decisions. You will leverage everything around you: core customer products, open-source technologies, and anything you and your team can build to drive real impact. In this role, you work with customers around the globe, where you gain rare insight into the world's most important industries and institutions. Each mission presents different challenges, from the regulatory environment to the nature of the data to the user population. You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes for our customers.

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers' unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.

LMI has been named a 2024 Best Places to Work by BuiltIn! We are honored to be recognized as a company that values a people-centered culture, and we are grateful to our employees for making this possible!

Responsibilities

• Perform various ETL functions

• Debug issues related to delayed or missing data feeds

• Write transformations and derive new datasets

• Monitor build progress and debug build problems

• Rapid development and iteration cycles with SME's including testing and troubleshooting application issues

• Containerize workflows

• Data modeling and metadata tagging

• Create and maintain data access and sharing pipelines

• Work with technical and non-technical team members to derive solutions

• Develop architecture diagrams to proposed problems

• Configuring cloud resources for data pipelining, storage, and retrieval

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, or a related business or quantitative discipline (Masters degree preferred)

• 3+ years of work experience in data engineering, data science, software engineering or relevant other hands-on-keyboard experience

• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Java or similar languages.

• Working knowledge of databases and SQL; preferred qualifications include linking analytic and data visualization products to database connections

• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Experience with Open-Source Tools, such as: Superset, Airflow, Kafka, Postgres, Docker, Helm (or similar), Kubernetes, Spark, etc

• Experience building production-ready data pipelines

• Experience developing commercial data products and services

• Experience with streaming data is preferred

• Experience with building solutions on both cloud services and on-prem deployments

• Experience with the restrictions of working in classified engineering environments is preferred

• Knowledge or experience with federal ATO/RMF processes

• Knowledge or familiarity with IDAM/ICAM/IAM

• Ability to work effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals.

• Skill and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.

• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.

• Proven track-record of strong communications including feedback gathering, execution updates, and troubleshooting.

• Minimum clearance requirement: Ability and willingness to obtain a Secret clearance.