Job Description

Job Title

Data Systems Engineer

Job Description

Founded in 2007, Markon is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

Join our winning team! We empower our employees to make decisions and encourage them to take on leadership roles. New ideas from employees are also encouraged. Markon is a place where you can truly demonstrate your capabilities to your full potential. We are consistently named a Washington Post Top Workplace and Best Place to Work in Virginia because we put our employees first. Markon offers an exceptional benefits package that ranks in the top tier of our industry.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description:

Markon is seeking a Data Systems Engineer to provide the following:

Perform operational data curation to address data management and assure proper data entry of ODNI mission data into the IC Data Catalogue for improved data sharing and discovery.
Interface with Data Stewards / Data Managers, and advance Data Librarian support across all ODNI DCOs to support data access, availability, and provenance.
In collaboration with ODNI CDO / DIG, provide long term iterative improvement of a data quality framework to monitor and improve data reliability and quality.
Assist in defining ODNI data assets.
Develop and implement data processes, for verification, acquisition, mining, and modeling.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements such as automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
Perform data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues.
Assist stakeholders with data related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

Job Requirements

Qualifications

Active TS/SCI with CI Poly is required
Bachelor's and 8+ years of experience or a Master's and 5+ years of experience.
Possess fluency in SQL and Python or R.
Familiar with the Tidyverse open source packages (ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, readr, etc.) and GitHub in order to develop and maintain methodologies for data cleaning, processing and analysis.
Able to accurately query datasets, extract data and validate the data and results.
Able to synthesize various datasets and write descriptive intelligence products for executive-level audiences.
Familiarity with JIRA for project management purposes.
Proactive self-starter and solution-oriented team-player that works well with others.

Desired: