Data Engineer - Senior

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph.

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Cherokee Strategic Edge is seeking a Data Engineer to support Defense analytical requirements with enhanced scientific research, and contribute to the DIE’s integrated all-source analysis of foreign defense capabilities for warfighters, Defense planners and policymakers.

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.  Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Data Engineer - Senior Responsibilities Include: 

• Designs, implements, and operates data management systems for intelligence needs. 
• Designs how data will be stored, accessed, used, integrated, and managed by different data regimes and digital systems. 
• Works with data users to determine, create, and populate optimal data architectures, structures, and systems. 
• Plans, designs, and optimizes data throughput and query performance. 
• Participates in the selection of backend database technologies (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, HPC, etc.), their configuration and utilization, and the optimization of the full data pipeline infrastructure to support the actual content, volume, ETL, and periodicity of data to support the intended kinds of queries and analysis to match expected responsiveness.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Data Engineer - Senior Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested: 

• Current TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a counterintelligence polygraph

• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years preferred

• Master’s Degree in a related field preferred

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.

• Ability to work independently and with minimal oversight

• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced. 

• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

Similar searchable job titles:

• Data Scientist

• Database Developer

• Data Integrator

• Cloud Engineer

• Database Architect

Keywords:

• Database configuration

• SQL

• HPC

• Database architecture

• Cloud Engineering

As required by our governmental client, this position requires being a US Citizen AND an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance.