Associate Data Engineer - McLean, United States - MITRE

Description

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Department Summary:

The Data Environments and Engineering Department (L176) in the Data and Human Centered Solutions Innovation Center is seeking highly motivated, adaptive, and enthusiastic candidates with a wide variety of interests and a foundation of skills in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, or data engineering to join our department as an Associate Data Engineer. Candidates should have a strong interest in addressing and solving challenges related to capturing, managing, and sharing data supporting decision making and enabling mission processes.

Job Description:

Working with experienced project teams and under the guidance of data environments and engineering mentors, project tasks may include:

• Developing data requirements documentation
• Performing source-to-target data mappings
  • Documenting and implementing data transformation rules to meet the requirements for system interfaces and data integration projects
• Collecting and integrating project data
• Profiling project data sources
• Preparing data and conducting data analysis
• Development services to improve data management
• Updating websites and SharePoint sites
• Migrating data to the Cloud
• Supporting stakeholder interviews
• Developing prototypes and performing data analytics and research
• Researching and evaluating data management tools and technologies
  • Participating in knowledge sharing and best practices through MITRE-led Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), workshops, research, and platform development

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, or a data management related discipline
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a clearance
• Experience manipulating datasets with at least one modern programming language or business intelligence platform like Python, SAS, MATLAB, C++, R, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, T SQL
• Familiarity with of all phases of the software or systems development life cycles
• Strong problem-solving, systems thinking, planning, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Experience working in teams
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Interest in developing and applying data management and data engineering domain skills to organizational, system, and data sharing related challenges and concerns
• Previous Co-Op or Internship experience
• Coursework or familiarity: computer science - especially data structures, database systems, and artificial intelligence
• Performing data and process analysis
• Working with database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Neo4j)
• Applying statistical analysis methods and tools
• Visualizing multi-dimensional data using tools like Tableau, Qlik, Power BI or
• Understanding of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling
• Performing source to target data mapping and implementation

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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