Data Engineer; Skillbridge Intern

Enlighten, honored as a Top Workplace from USA Today, is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, with expertise in cloud-based services, software and systems engineering, cyber capabilities, and data science. Enlighten provides continued innovation and proactivity in meeting our customers’ greatest challenges. We recognize that the most effective environment for projects doesn’t always look the same. Our hybrid work approach ensures collaboration in-person when needed and flexibility to work from home to achieve focused results.

This is an UNPAID internship through the DoD Skill Bridge Program for transitioning active-duty US military personnel. DoD Skill Bridge Internships help transitioning active-duty personnel gain real-world experience during the final 180 days of active-duty service. The intern will train on meaningful projects and work closely with a mentor and senior company leadership. Enlighten Internship programs aim to place transitioning military personnel into internships that align with their current or prior military roles and KSAs, with potential to transition to a full-time position.

The Skill Bridge intern will train as a Data Engineer with Enlighten, reporting to a designated Enlighten Supervisor, with the goal of learning Enlighten’s Enterprise approach to design, build, and optimize Big Data Platform (BDP) systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics  intern will be assigned special projects as needed.

Desired End State (3-4 month target)

• At the end of four months, the intern will be able to understand basic data engineer concepts. Data engineers, as part of enterprise data analytics teams, manage, optimize, oversee, and monitor data retrieval, storage, and distribution throughout the BDP enclaves.

• The intern will develop a good understanding of all critical tasks to successfully conduct data engineer objectives:

  • Data acquisition

  • Develop data set processes (Extract, transform, load (ETL))

  • Use programming language and tools

  • Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality

  • Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling

  • Use data to discover tasks that can be automated

Assumptions/Restrictions

• If selected and approved, the Skill Bridge Intern can travel in conjunction with this internship;
  Enlighten will fund all travel costs.
• Skill Bridge Intern will be available during core hours for critical meetings and training.

Phase 1 Basics

• Week 1:
  In processing, introductions, office familiarization
• Week 2:
  Intro to the Big Data Platform (BDP) technologies
• Week 3:
  Intro to BDP analytics and applications
• Week 4:
  Intro to Army and Air Force Cyber data ETL process

Phase 2 Parser Overview

• Week 5:
  Data Acquisition, Taxonomy/Schema
• Week 6:
  Review existing parsers and deployment flows; understand existing transforms available for use in parsers
• Weeks 7-8: BDP technologies - Kafka and Nifi workflows; establish a development environment for BDP parser development

Phase 3 Parser Development, Deployment, and Testing

• Weeks 9-11:
  Modify Kafka and Nifi workflows; modify existing parser schema and transforms to alter ingest pipeline
• Weeks 12-13:
  Understand how to access logs to identify errors; understand common parser development errors; troubleshoot errors

Additional Goals

• Project management

• Active-Duty Military ONLY within the final 180 days of active-duty service.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s in a related field; 3 years relevant experience with a Master’s in a related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent with 9 years relevant experience.
• Additional experience dependent on Program of Instruction.

Physical requirements will vary and depend on the Program of Instruction.

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