Software Engineer / Databrick Engineer

Software Engineer / Databrick Engineer

Location: Dulles, VA

Must have an active Secret Clearance

Node is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, integrate, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Node is seeking a Databricks Engineer to support the migration of customer applications, services and platforms to a Medallion Model. This opportunity represents the cornerstone of the future of the organization.

Responsibilities:
• Supporting teams to migrate services, applications and platforms from legacy back-end systems to Databricks.
• Identifying the optimal path for migration, building the plan for migration and finally, execution of the plan.
• Data Pipeline migration of legacy pipelines from NiFi to Databricks, complete with  validation.
• Implementing the medallion model for each of the data assets being migrated to Databricks.
• Develop an SOP for integration of data assets into the Databricks platform focused on efficiency, instrumentation  and performance.
• Optimize development, testing, monitoring and security for data assets being added to the Databricks platform.
• Develop and implement a strategy for optimizing migration and integration of data assets to the Databricks platform.
• Develop code using various programming and scripting languages to automate/optimize data ingestion, pipeline orchestration and improve data management processes.
• Ingest transparency, leveraging technologies such as AWS CloudWatch to identify places for measuring and gathering performance information on automated data pipelines
• Ensure Data Engineering Team Standard Operating Procedures are appropriately captured and communicated across the team.
• Ensure technical correctness, timeliness and quality of delivery for the team.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills to all levels of management and the customer.

Required Skills:
• Must be a US Citizen
• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 8 + years of directly relevant software development experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience performing data engineering work in a cloud environment.
• Experience with relational, noSQL and/or file-based storage (e.g. Databricks, Elastic, Postgres, S3, Athena, etc.)
• Experience working in a CICD Pipeline factory environment
• Working knowledge of Databricks, Cloud Relational Database Services, NiFi, AWS Redshift and Elasticsearch

Desired Skills:
• Experience with: 
• Databricks workflows
• Databricks Unity Catalog
• Databricks Autoloader
• Databricks Delta Live Tables/Delta Lake
• Databricks Workspace/Notebooks
• MLflow
• Apache Spark
• Experience with collaboration tools including MS Teams, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, and Confluence
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional certification or equivalent.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CISA: Securing the Software Supply Chain
• Familiarity with CISA: Cybersecurity Best Practices
• Familiarity with CISA: Open-Source Software Security
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-218, Secure Software Development Framework V1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities
Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required. [Ten (10) years of experience (for a total of six (18) or more years) may be substituted for a degree.]

Company Overview:

Node.Digital is an independent Digital Automation & Cognitive Engineering company that integrates best-of-breed technologies to accelerate business impact.
Our Core Values help us in our mission. They include:
OUR CORE VALUES
Identifying the~RIGHT PEOPLE~and developing them to their full capabilities
Our customer’s “Mission” is our “Mission”. Our~MISSION FIRST~approach is designed to keep our customers fully engaged while becoming their trusted partner
We believe in~SIMPLIFYING~complex problems with a relentless focus on agile delivery excellence
Our mantra is “~Simple*Secure*Speed~” in delivery of innovative services and solutions

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

• Medical 
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life 
• Health Saving Account
• 401K
• Three weeks of PTO
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Pre-Approved Online Training