Who We Are

We are a full lifecycle development firm. We are engineers, designers, testers, developers, cyber analysts, data scientists, and researchers. Our certified consultants create tailored solutions to meet the needs of clients – no matter how big or small. We are a creative group of big thinkers, idea generators, agile explorers, experience creators, challenge seekers, and problem solvers. We are trusted advisors and proven innovators in software development and systems engineering in the Federal and State government and commercial spaces. We pride ourselves on excellence, ensuring that we provide results that meet our clients’ mission’s needs. Our domain expertise spans government and commercial technical implementations, cloud architecture, information sharing policy, and counterterrorism.

We are Flexwind – Join us on our journey!

Where You Will Work

This position is located in Chantilly, VA.

What You Bring

Flexwind is looking for a full-time experienced Principal Big Data ETL Engineer to extract, transform, load, engineering and development of big data using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Metadata tagging and link analysis.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical skills and experience in working with structured and unstructured data for ingest into a variety of applications.
• Monitor data loads and fix errors during the load process and perform quality control on ingested data.
• Write/edit and test macros, scripts, parsers, and small programs to process, load or analyze data, and perform configuration management before entering into a production baseline.
• Provide daily logs and statistics, and output from utility tools, as well as track and provide daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports and statistics/metrics, and support COOP and emergency response activities.
• Ability to work under general direction, and independently determines approaches and develops innovative solutions to improve efficiency and quality of data loads.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Must have a TS security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related field with a minimum of three years of data processing experience. Note: In lieu of a degree, an additional five years of related experience may be substituted.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with at least one programming language (Python preferred).
• Demonstrated experience with computer file management in Windows and UNIX/Linux environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multitask.
• Deadline and detail oriented.
• Experience working in a Customer Facility.
• Ability to perform with minimum direction.
• Ability to work in a demanding environment with changing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering.
• Big Data or TRL experience.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Metadata tagging and link analysis.
• Experience with script and/or parser development to extract structured and unstructured data from files.
• Growing interest in natural language processing and machine learning.
• Experience writing customer reports.
• Experience with computer file management in Windows and UNIX/Linux.
• Experience with a variety of scripting languages (such as Perl or Python).
• Demonstrated ability to work in teams with a collaborative interpersonal style.
• Experience in the Intelligence Community.