Job Description

Overview

KBRs National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. This Data Engineer role focuses on enabling data-driven decision analysis products by applying methods from data science, machine learning, and operations research to support DoD modernization.

Title : Data Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Analytic Experience: Provide analytic consulting services, support analytic workflow and product development, promote best practices from data science, conduct applied methods projects, and assist in creating analysis-ready data.
• Onsite Support: Serve as the face of the CHEETAS Team, ensuring stakeholders have the analytical tools, data products, and reports they need to make data-driven recommendations.
• Stakeholder Assistance: Assist analysts and non-analysts with analysis of DoD datasets and demonstrate insights from T&E data to stakeholders and VIPs.
• Communication: Communicate effectively at programmatic and technical levels, with on-site support from the broader data science, software engineering, and systems teams as needed.
• Technical Support: Run and operate CHEETAS and other tools; demonstrate tools to stakeholders, adapt internal tools and reports, gather requirements, and report bugs or feature requests; provide training and troubleshooting support as needed.
• Independent Work: Work independently with minimal supervision.

Work Environment

• Location: Onsite
• Travel: 25% with potential surge to 50% to support DoD sites across the US (including Alaska and Hawaii). When not onsite, remote work or office-based work is possible where available.
• Working Hours: Standard, with potential on-site coverage where needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance is required
• Education & Experience: Degree in operations research, engineering, applied math, statistics, computer science or information technology with 15+ years of DoD experience; 1015 years considered case-by-case; entry level not considered.
• Technical Experience: 5+ years in big data analytics; 5+ years with object-oriented and functional languages (e.g., Python, R, C++, Java, etc.).
• Data & Analytics: Experience handling imperfect data; strong foundation in software engineering, programming, statistics, data mining, ML, and modeling; significant ETL experience and working with large data and DoD data types.
• Big Data Infrastructure: Experience with Spark, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, NoSQL graphs, SQL with Polybase, and data visualization.

Additional Qualifications

• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python and R) and notebooks (Jupyter, RMarkdown) for reproducible analytics;
• Experience with interactive visualization tools (RShiny, pyShiny, Dash);
• Ability to present reports and findings to customers;
• Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines and data sets;
• Data preparation for time series and geospatial data;
• Working with Windows, Linux, and containers;
• SQL querying and distributed storage/computing environments (Spark, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, Neo4J, JanusGraph, MongoDB, etc.);
• Experience with code repositories and collaborative development;
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present to diverse audiences;
• Ability to document procedures for reproducible research and create end-user training materials;
• Problem solving under pressure and time constraints;
• Self-motivated to design and implement data-driven analytical products;
• Ability to collaborate with data scientists to design optimal technical solutions.
• Understanding of ETL processes and data architectures; knowledge of queues and stream processing.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If youre excited about making a significant impact in space defense and working on projects that matter, apply to join the KBR team.

Benefits

KBR offers competitive benefits including options like 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending accounts, disability, paid time off, and flexible work arrangements. Professional development and career advancement opportunities are provided.

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EEO Statement: KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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