Data Engineer (Senior) - TekSynap

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for developing, sustaining, and improving the current system data ingest functions and make adjustments, as needed, by performing analysis, monitoring and configuring the solution; and creating or updating detailed design information; accessing and reviewing the code repository, administering code reviews, adjusting unit testing, maintaining build support, including continuous integration, sustain operational support activities and respond to mission critical requests; working with application development tools, standards and languages.
• Designing and implementing databases which provide:
  • Scalability
  • Failover/Recovery
  • Monitoring
  • Security
  • Performance
• Responsible for the cloud strategy and implementation regarding application databases 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• 10 years of experience with programming and database scripting
• 5 years of experience engineering Oracle solutions with RAC configurations
• 3 years of experience with Oracle DataGuard in a production environment
• 2 years of experience with Oracle security solutions to include encryption and key management
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to deliver an advanced visual analytic application to include developing data analytics for desktop and web-developed visual analytic software; facilitating the bulk analysis of relational information utilizing advanced graphics, visualization, and high-performance computing
• Experience utilizing big data technologies and knowledge of data science models to analyze large amounts of data and create valuable insights
• Experience integrating third-party components, the introduction of new custom capabilities, modification of existing code, process improvement recommendation, and automation of operations and maintenance tasks
• Expertise in architect and utilization of large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics
• Databricks and Lakehouse architectures
• AWS OpenSearch
• Experience with AWS, Splunk, Databricks, and other Oracle/SQL based platforms.
• Experience with python, Microsoft VBA, and Databricks
• HTML, Vue Framework, Javascript, Java and .NET
• Apache Solr
• Maintaining the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem, especially utilizing HBase, MapReduce, and Spark.
• ETL processes utilizing Linux shell scripting, Perl, Python, and Apache Airflow.
• AWS services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELB, EMR, KMS, SQS, SNS, and Systems Manager.
• Experience in supporting, maintaining, and migrating JavaFX applications to modern cloud-native solutions.

We are seeking Top Secret cleared Data Engineer (Senior) to join our team. TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

This team is responsible for providing IT product lifecycle management, technical expertise, and support for the development and operations lifecycle. The team is engaged in the operation and enhancement of over 80 existing IT applications, including several new applications developed annually. Team activities cover information systems operations, information systems development and modernization, and IT security.

The operation of existing applications and new application initiatives are critical to the success of the mission. Additionally, thousands of personnel in the law enforcement, intelligence, legal, and administrative communities use these services on a daily basis to perform mission-critical work. These applications require responsive, effective, and specialized technical expertise to limit disruption to operations.

TekSynap offers our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Location: Huntsville, AL
• Type of environment: Office
• Noise level: Medium
• Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday (typical shift is between 8am-5pm EST)
• Amount of Travel: Less than 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

U.S. Citizen

Top Secret Clearance

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.