Data Engineer / Data Developer (Clearance Required)

Company Description

PSG, INC. is an agile consulting firm with competencies in Business Operations, Human Capital Management, Finance & Program Management, IT, Security, Research & Data Science, Recruiting and Business Process Re-Engineering.

PSG is an industry leader in Financial Management, Program and Acquisition Management, and Business Process Improvement - providing innovative solutions for data-centric organizations. We are experts, highly skilled at creating solutions that enable complex business processes. Our solutions range from internally developed software solutions for industry-specific challenges, to large-scale, multi-faceted custom systems. We help our clients improve accuracy, efficiency, and costs. We give managers better control of their processes, provide data to key decision makers, and gain insight into their business processes - collecting, analyzing, and presenting data in ways that empower individuals is what we’re all about.

At PSG, we view our clients as partners. We work closely with them to understand their business and its hurdles. Our success is based on our Partner’s success — their problem is our passion. PSG leverages progressive technologies to provide technical applications that maximize the value of the organization’s data. We help organizations achieve its mission more effectively and efficiently by designing, evaluating, and implementing solutions from a thorough understanding of their business.

Job Description

The Data Engineer shall provide data analytics, data management, and data architecture support. All data related activities shall comply with appropriate laws and policies and take into consideration the protection of individuals’ civil liberties and privacy.

Data Engineer / Data Developer (Senior)

• Designs, develops, builds, analyzes, evaluates and installs database management systems to include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.
• Defines and oversees database organizations, standards, controls, procedures, and documentation.
• Provides technical consulting in the definition, design, and creation of a data base environment.
• Advises applications development staff and users on data-based solutions to business problems, data architectures, data base management system facilities and capabilities, and the operation and tuning of data bases.
• Ensures economic and efficient availability of data within adequate safeguards.
• Designs and implements databases with respect to access methods, access time, batch processes, device allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods.  
• Uses data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop databases.
• Determines data storage and optimum storage requirements.  
• Prepares system requirements, source analysis and process analyses and design throughout the database implementation.

Data Engineer / Data Developer (Journeyman)

• Work with Senior Data Engineer to analyze unstructured and semi-structured data, including latent semantic indexing (LSI), entity identification and tagging, complex event processing (CEP), and the application of analysis algorithms on distributed, clustered, and cloud-based high-performance infrastructures.
• Handle processing and index requests against high-volume collections of data and high-velocity data streams.
• Has the ability to utilize advance tools and computational skills to interpret, connect, predict and make discoveries in complex data and deliver recommendations for business and analytic decisions.
• Experience with machine learning, algorithm analysis, and data clustering. 
• Work with more junior Data Engineers to elevate skills for breath and depth in the field.

Qualifications

Required Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Applicable degree(s): Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Database Administration, Geographic Information Systems, Information Security, Information Technology (IT), IT Management, Network Administration, Software Development, Technical Writing, or Web Design & Development.
• Demonstrated relevant expertise supporting U.S. Federal Government as a Database Administrator/Manager/Systems Engineer, with hands-on experience with database standards and end user applications.
• Minimum five (5) years’ working knowledge of data backup, recovery, security, integrity and Structured Query Language (SQL). These five (5) years must be concurrent with the requisite years of work experience.
• Minimum five (5) years’ working knowledge of database design, data modeling, and data mining techniques, query creation and report generation, documentation, coding, DBA case tools (frontend/backend) with third party tools, and programming languages application programming interface (API). These five (5) years may be concurrent with the requisite years of work experience.
• Minimum five (5) years’ working knowledge of statistical packages for analyzing large datasets. These five (5) years may be concurrent with the requisite years of work experience.
• Ability to effectively establish and execute strategic and critical task priorities to demonstrate problem-solving skills, and to think algorithmically.
• Strong knowledge and experience with reporting packages and databases (SQL preferred), and some programming (JavaScript, XML, or ETL frameworks).

Desired Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Ability to understand U.S. Federal Government business needs, with strong analytical and organizational skills.

Additional Information

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.