Data Engineer

Position: Data Engineer Staff
Job Description

Lockheed Martin is looking for a Data Engineer who will deliver end to end, full stack data solutions across the complete data processing pipeline. You will apply systems engineering principles to design, build, and operate scalable pipelines that collect, ingest, transform, store, and serve data for analytics and mission critical applications while ensuring security, performance, and compliance with DoD/SOFSA standards.

Key Responsibilities

Pipeline Development & Maintenance Build, test, and maintain robust data pipelines (batch & streaming) that clean, transform, and aggregate raw data into analytic ready data stores. Implement data quality checks, smart caching, and virtualization techniques to guarantee consistency and reliability. Build automated data management conduits that support machine learning data flows.
Data Architecture & Modeling Collaborate with the Data Architect to create conceptual, logical, and physical data models that support business needs. Define functional capabilities, security, backup, and recovery specifications for each solution. Design and maintain systems that collect, store, and present data across the enterprise.
Lifecycle Management Conduct data profiling, requirement analysis, and performance tuning throughout the solution lifecycle. Deploy, monitor, and optimize ETL/ELT processes (e.g., Informatica, Talend) and related reporting/analytics layers. Develop and implement data mining and data warehousing programs to enrich the enterprise data ecosystem.
Operations & Performance Identify and resolve production incidents; tune system parameters for optimal throughput and latency. Evaluate, integrate, and validate new releases or platform upgrades. Manage the compilation, catalog ing, caching, distribution, and retrieval of data and maintain test data records.
Standards & Governance Define and enforce best practice standards, certification processes, and metadata management policies for data objects. Participate actively in the Data Governance Working Group. Implement data management standards, requirements, and specifications and ensure compliance with data classification and handling rules through access control and security best practices.
Risk & Design Support Assist early stage risk identification and mitigation for task order activities. Support Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) and advise Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) on data related risks and mitigation strategies.
Cross Discipline Liaison Serve as the technical liaison to Systems Engineering, IPT engineers, and other disciplines to ensure complete, documented requirements allocation for IT and data systems. Prepare and release engineering drawings and associated data system documentation.
Technology Integration Advise on and design the integration of new data technology solutions (e.g., IBM Cloud Pak for Data) into the SOFSA enterprise IT environment. Advise higher level leadership on critical data management issues and emerging technology trends.
Reporting Report directly to the Data Architect and provide status updates on pipeline health, performance metrics, and risk registers.
Additional Typical Duties (new content integrated) Apply data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, and ingestion best practices for machine learning data conduits. Assess and address methodological limitations to ensure reliable data delivery. Read, interpret, write, modify, and execute simple scripts (e.g., PERL, VBS) on Windows and UNIX systems for parsing large files, automating manual tasks, and fetching/processing remote data. Record, manage, and validate test data.

Establish data security controls, develop data dictionaries, and apply data mining techniques (e.g., file system searches). Perform data pre processing (imputation, dimensionality reduction, normalization, transformation, extraction, filtering, smoothing). Conduct transformation analytics (aggregation, enrichment, processing)

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred).
Data-mining and data-warehousing principles.
Database management systems, query languages, table relationships, and views.
Proficiency with Hadoop, Java, Python, SQL, Hive, and PIG for data exploration.
Data Ops processes and best practices.
Data-security roles and responsibilities; ability to implement access-control and encryption safeguards.
Knowledge of how to collect, store, monitor, and validate test data.
Ability to assess methodological limitations and recommend mitigation strategies.

Desired skills

IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) - Advanced
Oracle / Microsoft SQL Server - Advanced (schema design, performance tuning)
Microsoft Power BI Report Server - Proficient
Deltek COBRA - Working knowledge
Microsoft SharePoint - Working knowledge
SAP - Working knowledge
Teamcenter - Working knowledge
Scripting
- Python, Power Shell
- Basic to intermediate (data extraction, automation)
Data modeling & metadata…