What are the responsibilities and job description for the ETL Software Engineer position at Elder Research Inc?
ETL Software Engineer
Hybrid, 2 days on-site required in Herndon, VA
Clearance Required: Secret
People Centered. Data Driven
Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.
Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.
Summary of Position:
Do you enjoy working with modern design patterns including Serverless and Event Driven Architectures? We're looking for you to join our ETL team! You'll work with a small team of engineers building and maintaining data pipelines that help drive the enterprise. Our pipelines are based in AWS and leverage Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, and more to process millions of data records each day at scale. With new datasets coming online, there's always a new challenge to meet and room to innovate and improve!
Desired Qualifications:
- Security Clearance: Secret or higher
- Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Experience with AWS Lambda
- Experience with AWS Step Functions
- Experience with Bash Scripting
- Experience with Make
- Proficiency in operating, monitoring, and ensuring the smooth functioning of applications and data pipelines, including the implementation of effective alerting mechanisms and proactive remediation strategies.
Job Specifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Strong Experience in Python programming language
- Experience developing and deploying applications in AWS
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), Terraform, or similar
About Elder Research, Inc
Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.
Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.
Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Elder Research is a Government contractor and our positions require US Citizenship.
