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Data Engineer III
full-timeSparks, Lone Tree

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Sparks, Lone Tree

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About this role

Are you ready to apply your advanced technical abilities? Dream, Innovate, Inspire and Empower the next generation to transform humanity through technology and imagination! As a Data Engineer III you'll design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing cloud-based data pipelines and transformations. You will participate in design meetings and consult with business clients to develop processes and structures that ingest data from multiple sources into our cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Within the EDW, you will use a variety of tools to implement and continuously improve data integration, master data management, data lifecycle management, data security, data quality management, metadata management, and reporting and analytics. Additionally, you will perform defect corrections (analysis, design, code). The Data Engineer III also identifies and creates data management practices and processes to be included in the technical architectural standard.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders, business systems analysts, and other project team members to understand their functional and non-functional data requirements and design data models that meet those needs.
  • Develop and maintain data dictionaries, data lineage, and other metadata artifacts to ensure that data is well-governed, accurate and supports authoritative data sourcing.
  • Document and model existing ETL processes to provide insight into current data integrations, areas of opportunity to consolidate or streamline, and/or removing redundancies.
  • Support and help define the data strategy and cleansing activities for AI initiatives.
  • Design, build, and maintain RPAs for data ingestion that are scalable and efficient to bolster accuracy in QA and system testing.
  • Partner with program management office and business systems analysts to support the elicitation and cultivation of business needs to translate into detailed requirements documentation; focus will be on the data aspects of the needs to support successful delivery of projects including managing the transition to sustainment.

Qualifications You Must Have:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field with at least 6 years of relevant experience
    • Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
    • Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), and familiarity with a variety of databases
  • Experience with AWS cloud services: S3, Redshift, Glue
  • Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on data to answer specific business questions or issues
  • Experience with object-oriented scripting languages and frameworks: Python
  • Source system integration patterns (SQL, APIs)
  • Operational responsibilities (schedules, monitoring, logging, alerting, error handling, etc.)
  • DevOps experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

  • Understanding of data modeling approaches and their applications
  • Proficiency with SQL, Power Automate, IaC (Terraform), and DevOps
  • Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis on data to answer specific business questions or issues
  • Defining source system integration patterns
  • Understanding of machine learning techniques, LLMs, and Azure Foundry
  • Familiarity with ArchiMate modeling semantics
  • Experience with Azure and AWS cloud services
  • Strong knowledge of project planning/execution and solid understanding of analysis and software development lifecycle methodologies
  • Knowledgeable on the technologies that support day-to-day business execution in addition to business application development, implementation, and sustainment
  • Strong presentation, facilitation, collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on data to answer specific business questions or issues
  • Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, CloudWatch, ECS, IAM
  • Experience with AWS security: best practices, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager
  • Experience with object-oriented scripting languages and frameworks: Python (BOT03), PySpark, Java, etc
  • Master Data Management (MDM) Solution experience

This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

Other facts

Tech stack
SQL,AWS,Data Pipelines,Data Integration,Python,ETL,Data Management,Data Quality,Metadata Management,Machine Learning,DevOps,Data Modeling,RPA,Data Security,Data Lifecycle Management,Root Cause Analysis

About Sierra Nevada Corporation

SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber.

As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It’s part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow.

Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen.

Team size: 1,001-5,000 employees
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Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Founding Year: 1963

What you'll do

  • As a Data Engineer III, you will design, develop, document, test, and debug cloud-based data pipelines and transformations. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop processes for data ingestion into the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

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What does a Data Engineer III do at Sierra Nevada Corporation?

As a Data Engineer III at Sierra Nevada Corporation, you will: as a Data Engineer III, you will design, develop, document, test, and debug cloud-based data pipelines and transformations. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop processes for data ingestion into the Enterprise Data Warehouse..

Why join Sierra Nevada Corporation as a Data Engineer III?

Sierra Nevada Corporation is a leading Defense and Space Manufacturing company.

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The Data Engineer III position at Sierra Nevada Corporation is based in Sparks, Nevada, United States and Lone Tree, Colorado, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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