Senior-Level Data Engineer

Responsibilities

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Senior-Level Data Engineer to support our DC-area offices of the Chief Digital and AI Office in Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington locations.

 

Duties Include:

• Develop a generalized tool to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data
• Participate in DoD and government AI/ML Task Forces, connect with others in DoD working on similar capabilities, and share best practices with an LLM community of practice
• Extend a generalized API deployed to NIPR to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data and enable others across the Department to use the API within the paradigm of CDAO / Advana 1.2's self-service model
• Support the installation of the capability on other networks at different classification levels, including SIPRnet and JWICS
• Includes a set of swappable containers with different functions that provide inputs and outputs through an API.
• Develop methodology to test how Search performance (with varying levels of prompt engineering)
• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data
• Develop a cost model for semantic search API use cases
• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data
• Develop and document a strategy and implementation plan to ingest and consistently store unstructured data on the Advana platform, following the Bronze/Silver/Gold table paradigm (i.e. raw files in bronze, parsed/transformed data in silver, cleaned, processed
• and data available for query in gold)
• Develop an approach to address issues arising from maintaining semantic indices associated with document change management and version control for unstructured data, such as when a new manual comes out to replace a previous version

Major Duties/Tasks:

• Support the configuration and ingestion of designated structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data repositories into capabilities that satisfy mission partner requirements and support a data analytics and DevOps pipeline to drive rapid delivery of functionality to the client;
• Maintain all operational aspects of data transfers while accounting for the security posture of the underlying infrastructure and the systems and applications that are supported and monitoring the health of the environment through a variety of health tracking capabilities;
• Automate configuration management, leverage tools, and stay current on data extract, transfer, and load (ETL) technologies and services;
• Work under general guidance, demonstrate an initiative to develop approaches to solutions independently, review architecture, and identify areas for automation, optimization, right-sizing, and cost reduction to support the overall health of the environment;
• Apply comprehension of data engineering-specific technologies and services, leverage expertise in databases and a variety of approaches to structuring and retrieving of data, comprehend Cloud architectural constructs, and support the establishment and maintenance of Cloud environments programmatically using vendor consoles;
• Engage with multiple functional groups to comprehend client challenges, prototype new ideas and new technologies, help to create solutions to drive the next wave of innovation, and design, implement, schedule, test, and deploy full features and components of solutions
• Identify and implement scalable and efficient coding solutions

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Big Data systems, including Apache Spark / Databricks
• Experience with ETL processes;
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or MilCloud 2.0;
• Applying DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and automating that process
• Experience with multiple coding languages
• Experience engineering data pipelines across multiple security domains / classified networks
• Travel: <10 %
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 7-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience.

Estimated Time to Hire:

• Mid-March 2025

Overview

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