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Data Engineer - Lead

Altamira Technologies is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our growing team in Centennial, CO. The selected candidate will be primarily focused on data engineering requirements and will also serve as Data Engineering IPT Lead.

Data ontologies play a crucial role in enhancing data discoverability, improving data quality, and enabling advanced analytics. By providing a clear structure for data, they help organizations make informed decisions based on accurate and well-organized information. Defining the relationships between various data entities enables better data integration, interoperability, and analysis.

To be effective in this role, the candidate will need to develop data ontologies that serve as structured frameworks to help understand and manage data more effectively.

Roles and Responsibilities

Create ontologies that define the concepts, categories, and relationships relevant to ingested data. This involves identifying key entities and their attributes, as well as how they relate to one another.

Ensure that data from different sources can be integrated seamlessly. Map data from various systems to a common ontology, facilitating easier data sharing and collaboration amongst stakeholders

Work with Subject Matter Experts to reach consensus on how the ontology’s structure is designed, including the precise meanings of key words.

Serve as the data custodian, responsible for its provenance, accuracy, and location throughout project execution

Coordinate and participate in Technical Exchange Meetings with data stakeholders for both ingest and export. Understand customer's goals and deficiencies and propose potential solutions for capability improvement for either side of the interface

Identify, gather, and organize critical technical metadata to enrich the data catalog and enable effective data discovery

Create visual representations of available data, to include data catalogues, in innovative ways to help data stakeholders discover relevant information necessary for mission execution

Create and maintain charts, graphs, and dashboards to make complex data understandable for stakeholders

With a modeling focus, build statistical tools and techniques to explore and analyze data, identifying trends, patterns, and relationships

IPT Lead - willingness to perform interviews, select candidates and provide overall team leadership for expanding data engineering team

Tech Stack

Versed in data cataloguing tools (e.g. DataHub, OpenMetadata)

Visualization tools (e.g. Kibana, Grafana)

Common schemas (e.g. xsd, OpenAPI, MIL-SPECS)

Experience in scripting language (e.g. python, bash, MATLAB)

Microsoft Office suite with advanced Excel capabilities

Agile tools including Confluence and Jira

Nice to have: Experience with ontology tools (e.g. Protege)

Nice to have: Graph database (e.g. Neo4j, OrientDB)

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in technical field

5+ years experience in data engineering

Well versed in Extract, Transforms, Load (ETL) techniques and technologies, and will also be familiar with a variety of database types, schemas, and ontologies

While a heavy programming background is not required, sufficient technical knowledge in computer languages such as java is valuable

Experience in various areas of data transport to include RESTful API, Streaming API, SFTP, JMS, Kafka, message brokers, etc preferred but not required