Data Engineer – TS/SCI at Xcelerate Solutions – Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Data Engineer – TS/SCI

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking an experienced Data Engineer Data Engineer to support the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. Make an impact as part of a mission-driven, solutions-oriented, and adaptive team that values ​​innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your role will be to design, implement, maintain, and monitor data pipelines in support of both R&D prototypes and production pipelines. You will succeed through effective cross-functional collaboration in areas including, but not limited to, development, product, and QA in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. While most work is performed onsite at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and some unclassified development duties. Join our award-winning organization and work with some of the most talented and brightest minds in the GovCon industry.

Location:

Bethesda, MD

Clearance:

TS/SCI

Responsibilities:

As a senior member of the team, you will bring deep expertise in data engineering and work closely with other infrastructure and network engineers, data scientists and systems engineers on the following core tasks:

• Perform database builds, installations, configuration, management and troubleshooting of database systems (e.g. MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity by applying data engineering best practices
• Maintain database and data pipeline documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagrams

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL and vector databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, FAISS, Milvus, Qdrant, etc.
• Experience in designing and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Argocd, Metaflow, Kubeflow, etc.
• Experience with DevOps/MLOps, using CI/CD methodology with data pipelines and cloud-native deployment paradigms
• Must possess a TS/SCI clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph test
• Experience with database design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning and optimization
• Expertise in data profiling techniques and insight into the content from both a data quality and business perspective
• Experience with techniques for evaluating data quality and accuracy
• Experience with Agile practices
• Development experience with Python
• Experience in developing, customizing, migrating and maintaining data models.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work independently

Desired qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI with polygraph approval
• Experience supporting data teams and data scientists
• Experience with a production/enterprise system
• Experience in air-gapped environments
• Application development and deployment in an AWS environment
• AWS Certifications

About Xcelerate Solutions:
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean, VA, Xcelerate Solutions (www.xceleratesolutions.com) is one of America’s fastest growing companies. Xcelerate’s culture is defined by our diverse workforce of dynamic and versatile professionals, supported by growth and development opportunities that contribute to the growth of individuals and companies. This strong commitment to our employees has been recognized by our inclusion on the Washington Business Journal’s “50 Best Places to Work” list and by being a certified “Great Place to Work” with a 4.6 star rating and 99% CEO approval on Glassdoor. Find out why Xcelerate Solutions is one of the best employers in the DC Metro area!

Xcelerate Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or expression of any other protected characteristic. As part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals, Xcelerate will provide reasonable accommodations when needed because of an applicant’s or employee’s disability.

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