Data Engineering Manager (SRF 383B) - 100% Telework!

Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As a Data Engineering Manager at GDIT, you’ll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward. At GDIT, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate as we provide enterprise IT operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system, and the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to store, match, share, and analyze biometric and biographic data in support of DHS’s strategic mission. At the most critical moments of change, we’re there – bringing the resources, solutions, and expertise to help our clients take on some of the world’s biggest challenges – and GDIT is excited to offer you a unique opportunity to join a best performing O&M team supporting one our nation’s most critical national security, law enforcement, immigration and border management, and intelligence missions.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Data Engineer Manager you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Data Engineer Manager joining our program to lead an Operational Data Store team of engineers, to work proactively, collaboratively, and with an entrepreneurial spirit in providing engineering and O&M support to the customer and their Stakeholder communities in achieving their critical missions.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Data Engineer Manager, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of DHS and OBIM.
• Manage engineers engaged in design, development, test, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud solutions focused on data capture, transformation, validation, and distribution/reporting/publishing
• Collaborate with teams to transform data and integrate models into automated processes
• Work with stakeholders including program, product, data, and design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support data infrastructure needs
• Manage team’s production O&M support, scheduled, on-call 24x7 support
• Engage program staff and other OBIM contractors on support needs
• Communicate project and work status to senior program leadership and customer
• Proactively identify and propose solutions to improve existing system architectures
• Schedule staff to obtain proper response in a timely manner.
• Enjoy working in a learning environment, with a small team that must be enabled to mitigate skill and knowledge gaps between team operations and/or responsibilities, on a periodic basis.
• Understand the criticality of knowing and teaching the business operations, supporting systems, and underlaying data to the team.   
 
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Data Engineer Manager must have:
• Education: BA/BS or equivalent
• Experience: 5+ years of experience
• Technical skills: experience managing the development and/or maintenance of all life cycle phases in Data Warehousing project(s); experience performing or managing O&M of on-premise or cloud-hosted, federal IT enterprise systems; database experience (Oracle and DB2 on-premise); experience with AWS GovCloud data storage/management service(s) (Redshift, EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, Quick Sight, VPC); experience administering or managing data migration and transformation tools (ETL/ELT tools on-premise, Informatica, Glue, DMS); and experience administering or managing Data Manipulation tools (SQL, Athena)
• Security clearance level: Public Trust (DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability)
• US citizenship required 
��� Role requirements: work location - any CONUS home/remote; adept at problem-solving, troubleshooting, collaboration, time management, multi-tasking, and task-ownership/leadership; and excellent oral and written communication skills, organization and documentation skills, and requirements analysis skills.
• Preferred Skills: technical team management in a data center/O&M contract, and a proven ability to manage remote staff, documentation efforts, and data migration, data transformation and/or modernization projects; degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field of study; experience with AWS GovCloud, Informatica ETL software, Oracle & Redshift databases; experience in DevOps and Agile development and/or methodologies.
 
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.