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Department Summary:

The Data Environments and Engineering Department (L146) in the Modeling & Analysis Innovation Center is seeking highly motivated, adaptive, and enthusiastic candidates with a wide variety of interests and a foundation of skills in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, or data engineering to join our department as an Associate Data Engineer. Candidates should have a strong interest in addressing and solving challenges related to capturing, managing, and sharing data supporting decision making and enabling mission processes.

Role and Responsibilities:

Working with experienced project teams and under the guidance of data environments and engineering mentors, project tasks may include:

• Developing data requirements documentation

• Performing source-to-target data mappings

• Documenting and implementing data transformation rules to meet the requirements for system interfaces and data integration projects

• Collecting and integrating project data

• Profiling project data sources

• Preparing data and conducting data analysis

• Development services to improve data management

• Updating websites and SharePoint sites

• Migrating data to the Cloud

• Supporting stakeholder interviews

• Developing prototypes and performing data analytics and research

• Researching and evaluating data management tools and technologies

• Participating in knowledge sharing and best practices through MITRE-led Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), workshops, research, and platform development

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, information systems, or a data management related discipline

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance

• Experience manipulating datasets with at least one modern programming language or business intelligence platform like Python, SAS, MATLAB, C++, R, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, T SQL

• Familiarity with of all phases of the software or systems development life cycles

• Strong problem-solving, systems thinking, planning, organizational and interpersonal skills

• Strong written and verbal communications skills

• Experience working in teams

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Interest in developing and applying data management and data engineering domain skills to organizational, system, and data sharing related challenges and concerns

• Previous Co-Op or Internship experience

• Coursework or familiarity: computer science - especially data structures, database systems, and artificial intelligence

• Performing data and process analysis

• Working with database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Neo4j)

• Applying statistical analysis methods and tools

• Visualizing multi-dimensional data using tools like Tableau, Qlik, Power BI or D3.js

• Understanding of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling

• Performing source to target data mapping and implementation

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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