Sierra Nevada Corporation · 7 hours ago
Data Engineer III
Lone Tree, CO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expSierra Nevada Corporation is a global leader in aerospace and national security, seeking a Data Engineer III to design and develop cloud-based data pipelines and transformations. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to gather data requirements, documenting ETL processes, and supporting data strategy initiatives for AI projects.
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No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision plans
401(k) with 150% match up to 6%
Life insurance
3 weeks paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Sierra Nevada Corporation is an aerospace and defense contractor.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
John Reifenberg
Senior Director of Technology - Entrepreneurship
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