Data Pipeline Engineer

Description & Requirements

We are seeking a Data Pipeline Engineer to join our team supporting an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client.

The Data Pipeline Engineer will work with a team of Data engineers and ETL specialists and conduct hands-on development as a member of an integrated agile project team.

Position is remote within US.

Ideal candidates will be in Lanham MD or Farmers Branch or Austin TX areas.

Local candidates may attend meetings occasionally at the IRS facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the design and development of complex software applications from business requirements in collaboration with other team members

- Investigate new solutions, tools, products, and techniques to incorporate into coding standards.

- Troubleshoot complex issues and produce detailed proposals to resolve.

- Support testing and remediate defects

- Guide, coach, and mentor entry and mid-level developers

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide assignments and direction to team members

- Maintain direct responsibility and ownership in developing and deploying components or complete application functionality using Databricks, Informatica, SQL and other tools.

- Design software components from business requirements in collaboration with other team members

- Support ETL and BI functionalities of the application

- Provide support to technical team, writing the necessary required documentation as per the IRS development methodology for ETL integration.

- Coordinate, plan, communicate, develop and review client presentations and documentation required under the IRS Enterprise Lifecycle

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university required; an additional four (4) years of related work experience can substitute for a degree

- At least seven (7) years of relevant experience required

- Possess an active IRS MBI

- Experience working with IRS data in both legacy and modernized formats.

- Experience integrating a range of technologies in a large federal IT environment such as the IRS.

- Knowledge of cloud based technologies and integration of on-prem to on-cloud migrations.

- Implementation knowledge of Java, Python and REST API's

- Experience with performance optimization of Data pipelines

- Expertise in building CLI based solutions using a variety of available tools

- Industry experience in performing development on JBoss's EAP, Apache Tomcat, Weblogic or Websphere

- Some background in managed file transfer, XML Gateway and various transport protocols (FTP, SFTP, HTTPS, TLS etc.)

- Working knowledge CI/CD processes and build tools like Git, Jenkins, Maven, Eclipse, Kubernetes Dashboard

- Knowledge of Oracle database and ability to write SQL queries and support PL/SQL, triggers and stored procedures

- Knowledge of ETL and BI tools and able to understand and support ETL and BI functionalities of the application

- Good problem solving skills with...