Data Engineer (Financial Reporting) - Hybrid

Data Engineer (Financial Reporting) - Hybrid  
Arlington, VA 22202 

Tallon is recruiting a Data Engineer with data analytics experience to support financial reporting for the DoD ADVANA advancing analytics platform.

Candidates are expected to have a wide range of technical and functional capacities with recent experience supporting the U.S.

military in a Data Science, Data Visualization, or Data Engineering role and demonstrate a strong understanding of developing and enhancing data-driven platform capabilities. 

This position is a direct hire to our client offering a competitive W2 salary plus benefits.

Role and responsibilities include:   



* Collaborate with a team of government and contractor staff providing data expertise to support and streamline mission-focused data analysis. 


* Support DOD in standardizing financial management portfolio and financial reporting using application codebase.


* Lead the automation development process and enhance data quality to produce visually engaging data analytics.


* Deliver actionable insights to assist defense leadership and stakeholders. 


* Collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team to support multi-phase solution development, emphasizing data analysis, transformation, and change management.


* Assist evidence-based decision-making using data analysis and statistical modeling. 


* Utilize historical and predictive data analytics to uncover cost-saving opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and forecast trends.


* Conduct scenario analysis to pinpoint strategic opportunities for achieving organizational goals.


* Establish performance metrics and facilitate ongoing evaluation and improvements.


* Engage in requirements meetings, workshops, and discussions with leadership and stakeholders as needed.  

Requirements include:  



* U.S.

citizenship 


* Current U.S.

government security clearance (secret at a minimum) 


* 5+ years of data and software solutions expertise, including:  



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o Recent related experience supporting a very large data environment for a  DoD and/or IC customer 
o Experience supporting application codebase and compliance 
o Experience working with application codebase for financial reporting 
o Demonstrated expertise with digital strategy  



* Strong working knowledge of enterprise architecture 


* Ability to articulate challenges and solutions across the full SDLC 


* Experience supporting data transformation 


* Prior project management/technical lead experience in a related area 


* Extensive experience working with data visualization and dashboard development tools 


* Advanced proficiency with Python, SQL, Spark, and data science technologies 


* Experience working with DataBricks 


* Demonstrated experience creating data-related software applications from scratch 


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