Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Remote, with a preference of being in the DMV area

Workplace: Remote

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain public trust but an active Secret Clearance is preferred

Position Overview:

As a Data Engineer, you will design and build data pipeline systems for collecting, storing and analyzing data to ensure it is usable for data scientists and analysts, while utilizing software best practices, data optimizations (including storage, indexing, and normalization), anomaly detection, and machine learning principles. This role does not focus on working on a single product necessarily, is fast paced, and allows the opportunity for someone to learn and grow as an engineer.

If you are excited about working in a dynamic environment, this role would be great for you!

This position will be part of our Defense and Intelligence Business unit serving the Intelligence Community as our primary customer.

• Develop, deploy and maintain multiple data pipelines to support various data science models as required by client projects.
• Take client requests and help turn into a dashboard to help solve client problems.
• Provide support to existing data pipelines that ingest raw data from disparate sources and move the data to a destination for storage and analysis.
• Provide internal IT support for the company's cloud infrastructures.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists to facilitate project completion according to client needs.
• Attend and present at client project update meetings.
• Attend regular Data Engineering mentorship meetings and Data Engineering Team-building and knowledge-share meetings.
• Attend monthly meetings with supervisors
• Complete professional development curriculum created for the Data Engineering Team.

• An active Secret Clearance
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or closely related IT field.
• 5+ years of experience
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, S3, and Athena
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and alerting using Cloud Watch or similar tools
• Understanding of IAM roles, policies, and security best practices for AWS services
• JavaScript familiarity
• Willingness to learn

The likely salary range for this position is $117,000-$196,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and contractual requirements, which could possibly fall outside of this range.

Elder Research values continuous learning, a supportive work environment, and a healthy work-life balance. We provide family health, dental, and vision benefits, employer-paid disability, paid-time off, and paid parental leave. We offer a 401(k) plan with employer contribution as well as an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP). Our employees enjoy reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off.

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - for example, each week the entire company attends a "Tech Talk" and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,…