Data Engineer

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

ManTech holds the distinct honor of being named a “Top 100 Global Technology Company” by Thomson Reuters. ManTech leadership works to continue this high level of industry recognition by affording our employees opportunities to break through barriers. We reinvest in our employees through rich educational opportunities such as 100% paid tuition for qualifying Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, extensive training and certification programs enabling our employees to obtain industry recognized skills sets and certifications, as well as Communities of Practice where employees can engage and exchange knowledge  as well as a diverse and in-depth range of instruction and resources needed for personal and professional development through our very own ManTech University. In addition to those amazing benefits, ManTech also has a fully dedicated Career Mobility team to provide you with guidance and assistance to continue to grow your career with ManTech. 

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first.  At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement. 

Currently, we are seeking a motivated, career and team-oriented cybersecurity data engineer in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Continuous Diagnostic & Mitigation (CDM) Data Services Program. The CDM Data Services Program is a critical component of CISA’s national effort to ensure the defense and resilience of cyberspace.

The CDM Data Services Program mission is to provide a standardized platform to collect, transform, and integrate cybersecurity data from relevant authoritative data sources into a coherent data, delivering actionable information into Agency and Federal Dashboards to identify risk areas in support of mitigation as well as to facilitate coordinated agency and national response to cyber-threats.   

This is a remote position where the candidate can work from any location within the United States provided, they are able to work on an eastern time zone schedule.

Our Data Engineering and Quality team guides and verifies data transformations so that our automated solution delivers end-to-end results with confidence.  The solution is managed in cloud environments and the team works closely with developers to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) solution using Agile delivery methodologies. 

The cybersecurity data engineer is responsible for taking contractual obligations, requirements, and customer desires and directs data business rules and data transformations between the customer and the team of developers.  Ownership of the data model will be needed to test and observe data quality issues.  Dashboard creation will be utilized to communicate findings.

The successful candidate will bring a consultative approach to business processes and will proactively collaborate with different stakeholders to define the data workflow of the solution.  They will work closely with developers to instruct and validate the solution to ensure it fulfils its objectives. The candidate should have a business and data analysis mindset in addition to data engineering to support the clients’ needs and understanding to make the best out of the developed solution.

Responsibilities:

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to examine contractual data requirements in order to drive data modeling, pipelines, transformation, normalization, and quality for each solution release through a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) to achieve business goals
• Act as subject matter expert regarding data requirements, formats, types, lineage, and quality to brief internal and external stakeholders
• Analyze raw data from different sources and define consistent and machine-readable formats for the data store
• Work with stakeholders to track and obtain nonautomated data sources to maintain freshness
• Develop, document, and communicate processes for seamless data ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) through Cloud based data services
• In charge of directing developers on how to join and convert raw data from multiple sources into usable information for analytics and reporting
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain a scalable and secure data repository/lake that can support analyzing trends and patterns
• Prepare options, levels of effort, and estimates when data requirements change
• Suggest where automation can improve processes and gain efficiencies
• Develop database objects and schemas that support extracting, transforming, loading, and storage of data based on a logical data model (LDM)
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and track and document work in Jira and Confluence
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and accessibility within the repository/lake
• Conduct complex data analysis using SQL based searches and instruct developers on how to handle data quality issues
• Explore and implement ways to enhance data quality and reliability and use tools to develop analytical dashboards
• Work with Data Scientists to improve the quality and accuracy of the information enabling stakeholders to make more responsible cyber risk decisions
• Prepare and maintaining datasets for testing and modeling
• Develop and maintain the solution’s data dictionary and data lineage
• Define data retentions and governance for the solution

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field
• At least 5 years of proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
• Solid understanding of relational databases and ETL processes
• Proficiency in data transformation, normalization, and configuration
• Technical expertise in data ingestion and manipulation
• Knowledge of big data platforms and data source formats from APIs (JSON, csv, yaml)
• Familiarity with API integration and data pipelines
• Experience in creating dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, or similar) for data visualization
• Detail-oriented, strong analytical skills, and the ability to combine data from different sources
• Experience with data abstraction, various data conditions including blank and NULL data, and detecting and handling data collisions, and filtering logic syntax
• Experience with SQL/T-SQL, NoSQL, and data visualization tools design
• Having been involved with data segmentation, cleansing, enrichment, and indexing
• Familiarity with application administration, configuration, and integration
• Experience with data security and segregation physically or logically.  Know the use of role-based access and attribute-based access when limiting data.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to independently perform research on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and cutting-edge technological trends.  Have passion for new technologies, software, and processes
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a remote distributed team
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines is essential
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Expertise in the Microsoft Office / Google suite of software

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data engineering or data analyst certification
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification
• Experience with Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, or Data Lakehouse
• Experience with Data governance tools
• Experience with Cloud services such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Understanding of cybersecurity tools such as vulnerability (CVE) scanners, software scanners, mobile and network host discovery scanners, and other tools in order to understand source data
• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity concepts such as Vulnerabilities, DISA STIGs, NIST, FISMA, Risk Management Framework, and MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Experience working with government contracting
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell)
• Experience with data compression, data deduplication.
• Experience with Elasticsearch with Kibana Dashboards.

Security/Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen and pass a background investigation.
• Able to obtain and maintain a DHS Suitability/Entry on Duty (EOD)

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time 
• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel 
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer 
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations 
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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