[Remote] Data Engineer (Level 3 or Level 4)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Northrop Grumman is a leading technology company that offers opportunities to work on revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a Data Engineer to lead the design and development of data products and pipelines, collaborating with business stakeholders to empower decision-making through data.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of products for fast-paced special projects
- Help shape the evolving data platform within CIDO by building reusable components and sharing ideas on architecture and best practices
- Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to translate strategic questions into data products and pipelines
- Design, code, test, and deploy production-grade data pipelines and models using Python/PySpark and SQL within Databricks
- Translate business requests into design specifications and requirements to build data engineering models, structures, and machine learning models that help scale our analytics
Skills
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar STEM related technical discipline with a minimum of 3 years of Data Engineering or Software Development experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar STEM related technical discipline with a minimum of 5 years of Data Engineering or Software Development experience is REQUIRED
- Must have experience with Python and SQL
- Must have experience with AWS, containerization, and Git
- PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar STEM related technical discipline with a minimum of 4 years of Data Engineering and/or Software Development experience; OR a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar STEM related technical discipline with a minimum of 6 years of Data Engineering or Software Development experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar STEM related technical discipline with a minimum of 8 years of Data Engineering or Software Development experience is REQUIRED
- Must have experience with Python and SQL
- Must have experience with AWS, containerization, and Git
- Experience with Databricks is a must
- The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Computer Science with 8 years of Data Engineering experience, using Python/PySpark and SQL within Databricks to build data engineering and machine learning models
- Strong experience in deploying production software engineering products or data engineering products
- Experience in technical business consulting, ability to take customer requests from ambiguity to deployable product
- Knowledge of domain-driven data ownership concepts
- Understand the importance of software engineering best practices in data development
- Proven ability to tackle ambiguous, cross‑domain business problems and turn them into concrete data solutions
- Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to translate technical concepts and data requirements for business partners
- Secret clearance
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Phenomenal learning opportunities
- Exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers
- A very friendly team environment
- Exceptional benefits/healthcare
- A 9/80 work schedule
- A great 401k matching program
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
- Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results
- Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives
- Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
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