VECTOR JOB OPENING:
Job Title: Data Integration Engineer
Job Clearance Required: For this job a Top Secret SCI Clearance is Required
Job Practice area: System Engineering
Location: Bethesda, MD - We do offer various work schedules: Compressed Schedules and Hybrid; speak to your recruiter about your needs.
Pay: W2 Salaried plus 15 leave days, 11 paid holidays, 7 sick days, benefits plans and 401k/w match and more.
JOB DESCRIPTION FOR Data Integration Engineer - TS/SCI
Vector is seeking our next TS/SCI cleared Data Integration Engineer supporting the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year Technology Platform contract. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your job will be to design, implement, maintain, and monitor data pipelines, both in support of R&D prototypes and production pipelines. You succeed through effective cross functional collaboration in areas such as, but not limited to, development, product, and QA in a dynamic and fast paced environment. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and some unclassified development tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.
Responsibilities
Perform Database builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of database systems (e.g., MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.)
Ensure data integrity by performing employing data engineering best practices.
Maintain database and data pipeline documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagrams.
Minimum Requirement Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or master's with 10+ years of prior relevant experience
Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, FAISS, Milvus, Qdrant, etc.
Experience designing and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines with technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Argocd, Metaflow, Kubeflow, etc.
Experience with DevOps / MLOps, using CI/CD methodology with data pipelines, and cloud-native deployment paradigms.
Must possess an active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph
Experience with database design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, and optimization.
Expertise in data profiling techniques and understanding the content from both a data quality and business perspective.
Experience with data quality and accuracy evaluation techniques.
Experience with Agile practices.
Development experience with Python
Experience in data model development, modification and migration, and maintenance.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Enthusiastic with the ability to work well on a team and a self-starter who can work independently.
Preferred Qualification An active TS/SCI clearance
Experience supporting data teams and data scientists.
Experience in a production/ enterprise system.
Experience in air-gapped environments.
Application development and deployment in an AWS environment
AWS certifications
Vector Talent Resources is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age or genetic information.
