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AI Data Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

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Public Trust
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IT - Database
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Join GDIT where your work will improve outcomes for our Veterans. You will support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with a Veteran first vision to transform the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) with greater visibility into claims processing. Together, we're building a future of fast, transparent claims, empowered teams, and striving for a zero backlog, directly supporting Veterans and making a real impact on the lives of those who served. This high-impact solution accelerates the delivery of benefits to Veterans and their families.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain data pipelines to extract, transform, and load structured and unstructured data into scalable AWS-based data platforms.

• Design and optimize data architectures using AWS services like Glue, Redshift, S3, Athena, Lambda, EMR, and RDS.

• Implement and enforce data governance, security, and quality policies in accordance with VA standards.

• Support data ingestion from legacy systems and external partners, including OCR, APIs, and flat files.

• Develop reusable scripts and automation for data transformation and orchestration (Python, SQL, PySpark, etc.).

• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to support advanced analytics and ML initiatives.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune performance of ETL workflows and database systems.

• Contribute to DevSecOps and CI/CD practices for data engineering components.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or cloud data platforms.

• Hands-on experience with AWS data services (Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Athena, etc.).

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ETL development.

• Familiarity with data lake and data warehouse architectures.

• Experience with DevOps tools, version control (Git), and CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance in regulated environments.

• Experience with healthcare or government datasets is a plus.

• AWS certifications such as Data Analytics - Specialty or Solutions Architect preferred.

• Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting

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