Join the Leidos All-Star Team: Senior Data Engineer Opportunity

Are you ready to accelerate your career by joining the Leidos all-star team? Leidos offers an exciting opportunity to become a TS/SCI cleared Data Engineer supporting the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract.

Be Part of a Mission-Focused Team

Work with a mission-focused, solutions-oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, implementing, maintaining, and monitoring data pipelines for both R&D prototypes and production pipelines.

Job Responsibilities

You will succeed through effective cross-functional collaboration in areas such as development, product, and QA within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Although most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule, and some unclassified development tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform Database builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of database systems (e.g., MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity by employing data engineering best practices
• Maintain database and data pipeline documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagrams
• Collaborate with infrastructure and network engineers, data scientists, and system engineers

Qualifications (Required)

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, FAISS, Milvus, Qdrant, etc.
• Experience designing and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines with technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Argocd, Metaflow, Kubeflow, etc.
• Experience with DevOps / MLOps, using CI/CD methodology with data pipelines, and cloud-native deployment paradigms
• Must possess TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Experience with database design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, and optimization
• Expertise in data profiling techniques and understanding data quality and business perspectives
• Experience with data quality and accuracy evaluation techniques
• Experience with Agile practices
• Development experience with Python
• Experience in data model development, modification, migration, and maintenance
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiastic, team-oriented, and self-starter

Preferred Qualifications

• An active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
• Experience supporting data teams and data scientists
• Experience in a production/enterprise system
• Experience in air-gapped environments
• Application development and deployment in an AWS environment
• AWS certifications

Additional Information

Original Posting Date: 2024-06-11. While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00. The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) the responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Company Name: Leidos

Job Title: Data Engineer