Junior Data Engineer
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Description
As a Junior Data Engineer, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will partner with experienced engineers and mission teams to improve reliable data delivery across cloud and enterprise environments.
Work Schedule:
Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
Essential Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and maintain data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for analytics, reporting, and mission operations
- Develop and maintain API connectors and integrations that ingest data from internal platforms and external services
- Create and improve data models and processing workflows to meet established performance, scale, and reliability needs
- Implement data validation, quality checks, monitoring, and documentation for assigned data products and workflows
- Work with mission stakeholders, analysts, and architects to clarify requirements and deliver maintainable technical solutions
- Troubleshoot pipeline and data integration issues, support production deployments, and communicate risks or complex issues to the team