We are seeking to hire a Principal Databricks Engineer and should have an Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance and DHS Suitability
Job Title: Principal Databricks Engineer
Work Location: Dulles, VA (Onsite)
Epic Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, integrate, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Epic is seeking a Databricks Engineer to support the migration of customer applications, services and platforms to a Medallion Model.
This opportunity represents the cornerstone of the future of the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Supporting teams to migrate services, applications and platforms from legacy back-end systems to Databricks.
• Identifying the optimal path for migration, building the plan for migration and finally, execution of the plan.
• Data Pipeline migration of legacy pipelines from NiFi to Databricks, complete with validation.
• Implementing the medallion model for each of the data assets being migrated to Databricks.
• Develop an SOP for integration of data assets into the Databricks platform focused on efficiency, instrumentation and performance.
• Optimize development, testing, monitoring and security for data assets being added to the Databricks platform.
• Develop and implement a strategy for optimizing migration and integration of data assets to the Databricks platform.
• Develop code using various programming and scripting languages to automate/optimize data ingestion, pipeline orchestration and improve data management processes.
• Ingest transparency, leveraging technologies such as AWS CloudWatch to identify places for measuring and gathering performance information on automated data pipelines
• Ensure Data Engineering Team Standard Operating Procedures are appropriately captured and communicated across the team.
• Ensure technical correctness, timeliness and quality of delivery for the team.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills to all levels of management and the customer.
Required Skills:
• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 10 + years of directly relevant software development experience required.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience performing data engineering work in a cloud environment.
• Experience with relational, NoSQL and/or file-based storage (e.g. Databricks, Elastic, Postgres, S3, Athena, etc.)
• Experience working in a CICD Pipeline factory environment
• Working knowledge of Databricks, Cloud Relational Database Services, NiFi, AWS Redshift and Elasticsearch
Desired Skills:
Experience with:
• Databricks workflows
• Databricks Unity Catalog
• Databricks Autoloader
• Databricks Delta Live Tables/Delta Lake
• Databricks Workspace/Notebooks
• MLflow
• Apache Spark
• Experience with collaboration tools including MS Teams, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, and Confluence
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional certification or equivalent.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CISA: Securing the Software Supply Chain
• Familiarity with CISA: Cybersecurity Best Practices
• Familiarity with CISA: Open-Source Software Security
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-218, Secure Software Development Framework V1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities
Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required. Ten (10) or more years of software development experience required.
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