Systems Engineer/Architect - 943 1032 - TS/SCI w/Poly

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Systems Engineer/Architect – 943 1043

McLean or Chantilly, VA

General Project Overview (team of 18 personnel)

(U//FOUO) Experience in data engineering, systems architecture, software engineering, and project management for the systems used to collect, process, and exploit data used by the Sponsor, and the Sponsors Community.

(U//FOUO) Experience integrating discrete technologies to support massive data processing, storage, modeling and analytics.

(U//FOUO) Performing threat identification and analysis.

(U//FOUO) Experience with technologies and systems, data, data processing and modeling, and use of the data via data science and querying of the data corpus and model(s) to derive intelligence to advance the Sponsor’s mission).

(U//FOUO) Experience with the Sponsor’s big data capability.

(U//FOUO) Experience with the operations, maintenance, and enhancements of this Sponsor critical ecosystem.

Sustaining and enhancing, as well as modernizing with Sponsor direction, the Sponsor’s ecosystem of existing capabilities for ingesting and exploiting high-volumes of disparate datasets at near-real time, correlating with the historical holdings, and enabling querying via ad hoc and recurring jobs dependent on complex data model(s).

Ensuring the existing ecosystem of capabilities dependent on “core” data sets, data models, intermediate data models, data ingestion pipelines (Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)) and data governance are sustained at the same (or better) levels.

Experience using the Sponsor project management systems, such as GIT, JIRA, and Confluence, to document and track requirements.

Innovating and implementing new data analytics, intermediate data models, algorithms, ETL, and methodologies (for data engineering, modeling, querying data).

Integrating and transitioning new technologies in coordination with the Sponsor.

Performing All-Source data analysis to perform analytic support.

Developing custom algorithms to support analytic requirements against massive data stores supporting the Sponsor.

Experience directly supporting the Sponsor performing technical analysis support using massive data processing systems.

Experience writing cables.

Planning and coordinating program activities such as installation and upgrading of hardware and software, utilization of cloud services, programming, or systems design development, modification of IT networks, or implementation of Internet and intranet sites.

Deploying web applications to a cloud managed environment to include DevOps and security configuration management.

Developing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, and VPC.

Planning, coordinating, and executing the required activities to support documentation to meet the Sponsor’s data compliance requirements (e.g., legal, data policy)

Requirements

Systems Architect

Experience in information systems development across the IT lifecycle, with a focus on systems to perform high volume and velocity data processing on disparate data types and formats.

Delivering integrated and scalable solutions using the LexisNexis, ECL, Pentaho or other data engineering platforms.

Architecting and delivering automated and scalable data process monitoring and data quality systems and processes.

Managing teams to prioritize and meet tactical and strategic requirements for frameworks and systems to process data.

Experience directly performing all aspects in the lifecycle of database environment administration, which includes the design, architect, deployment, maintenance, backup/recovery, and upgrade.

Managing database systems in conjunction with datastore systems in high-availability, system redundancy environments.

Benefits

• Vacation – 5 weeks of accrued paid vacation per year (i.e., 8.33 hours accrued per pay period worked)

• Holidays - Paid holidays published annually by the Office of Personnel Management, excluding Inauguration Day

• 100% paid for Health Benefits* (United Healthcare, Guardian Dental, VSP Vision, MetLife, Life and Insurance and annual $1500 employer HSA contribution on qualified plans) *health benefits kick in the 1st of the month following your start date

• 6% 401k Contribution (3% paid out during each pay period, the additional 3% will be paid out as a lump sum in Q1 each year)

• Training Reimbursement – Approved training and education expenses will be reimbursed