Senior Data Engineer

The Swift Group is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to work closely with Data Scientist to preprocess or clean structured and unstructured data, design and implement advance code and table configurations for complex data sets, stay current with enterprise metadata collection tools, produce ad hoc metrics reports to answer immediate needs, implement the existing coordination process, provide technical education to staff on an ad hoc basis, analyze large amounts of raw data to provide new business insights.

This position is located in Herndon, Va.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience writing, maintaining, customizing Python scripts that extract text from various formats such as MS Word, PDF, or XML
• Experience reviewing documentation and APIs of commonly used packages to choose the one for the best fit for a given task and implement it; 
• Experience with implementing regular expressions; experience conducting evaluations or transformations of data and loading the results into a relational database;
• Experience with version control systems, such as Github; experience with SQL in Oracle.
• BA/BS Degree or five additional years’ experience in lieu of a degree
• US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.