Data Specialist

4 weeks ago


Columbia, Maryland, United States Merit 321 Full time
Position: Data Specialist
Location: Columbia, MD (Hybrid)
Clearance: Active PLACEMENT MANAGER Clearance, SCI Eligible

Essential Job Responsibilities
  • The ideal candidate will have worked with big data systems, complex structured and unstructured data sets, and have supported government data acquisition, analysis, and/or sharing efforts in the past.
  • To excel in the position, the candidate shall have strong attention to detail, be able to understand technical complexities and have the willingness to learn and adapt to the situation.
  • The candidate will work both independently and as part of a team to accomplish client objectives
  • The candidate will understand the acquisition and documentation of logical and physical data models.
  • The candidate will have experience in using developer and API documentation for acquisition of data model content.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 9 years total relevant experience plus the following:
  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, org technical degree or industry experience equivalent (+4 years relevant experience can substitute for a BS degree)
  • Experience with programming languages such as Java.
  • Experience with Java Unit and Integration testing.
  • Fluency with data extraction, custom translation development, and loading including data prep and labeling to enable data analytics.
  • Familiarity with various log formats such as JSON, XML, and others.
  • Experience with documenting database/data store data models
  • Experience with data flow, management, and storage solutions (i.e. Kafka, NiFi, and AWS S3 and SQS solutions)
  • Ability to decompose technical problems and troubleshoot system and dataflow issues.
  • Must be certified DoD IAT II or higher
  • Willingness to do a programming challenge during the interview process.
  • Experience with Zoom/Teams/Meet style team meetings
    • Desired Skills (Optional)
    • Experience with Python
    • Experience with NOSQL databases such as Accumulo desired
    • Experience developing with Kubernetes environments
    • Prior Experience supporting cyber and/or network security operations within a large enterprise, as either an analyst, engineer, architect, or developer..
    • Familiarity with the Agile Project team and task management environment.
    • Good communication skills.
    • CI or FS polygraph
    EEO
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