General Dynamics Information Technology
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)
Job Family: Cloud
GDIT, a Federal marketplace leader in next-generation IT solutions and services, is seeking highly qualified and motivated IT professionals like you who are eager to contribute to our critical Homeland Security missions. For the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), GDIT provides enterprise IT services for DHSs biometric identity management system (IDENT) and the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to store, match, share, and analyze biometric and biographic data in support of DHSs strategic mission. GDITs operations and maintenance (O&M) services support break-fix of current OBIM functional capabilities, as well as security remediation activities and developmental engineering (such as prototyping new code or configurations of OBIM functionality). At the most critical moments of change, were there – bringing the resources, solutions, and expertise to help our clients take on some of the worlds biggest challenges – and GDIT is excited to offer you a unique opportunity to join a best performing O&M team supporting one our nations most critical national security, law enforcement, immigration and border management, and intelligence missions.
GDIT is looking for a Senior Data Warehouse (DW) Developer/Architect to serve on the Operational Data Store (ODS) / Business Intelligence (BI) team, providing both O&M support and DW/BI developmental engineering for this large, complex task order. The successful candidate will be proactive and entrepreneurial, work collaboratively, and apply hard (technical) and soft (people) skills to: lead and deliver standard, full lifecycle, DW/BI solutions (analysis, design, implementation, validation, training, and customer support); work to enhance the customer’s BI acumen and reporting abilities; apply strong written and verbal skills to develop advanced technological solutions into a final product; manage real and potential issues, taking ownership of edge events; and advocate for robust, long-term solutions.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Provide substantial system administration support for BI tools (Informatica, Birst, and Redshift), manage one-off O&M related tasks, and support other O&M tasks and teams
Build, extend, enhance, and support the DW/BI environment and reporting capability in GovCloud and help lead the transition from on-premise Oracle DB to GovCloud
Anticipate, develop, coordinate, and execute migration and modernization plans for on-premise to Cloud BI O&M and other enhancements
Support customer strategic and tactical planning
Training users in BI self-service
Train other program teams/staff to effectively contributing across the lifecycle
Provide production support/O&M, on-call 24×7
Required Skills / Qualifications:
U.S. citizenship
DHS HQ EOD required to start; must be able to obtain DHS HQ Final Suitability
BA/BS (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years of experience
Data architect expertise OLTP analysis and reverse engineering, ODS and OLTP design and implementation
ETL development expertise in client-server tool, (e.g.,Informatica) implementing CDC and bulk loads to Cloud databases (e.g. AWS Redshift)
SQL competency develop effective scripts, functions and procedures
OLAP design and implementation expertise
BI expertise build and maintain semantic layer, factless and metric rich reports, dashboards, exception KPIs
Test and validation expertise
Ability to brief, educate, and persuade customer staff and leadership (up to SES-level)
Desired Skills / Qualifications:
Degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field of study
15+ yrs of relevant experience
Specific O&M and development experience with BIRST
AWS S3 experience
Expertise developing BI reports, dashboards, and/or predictive analytics using BI tools (e.g., Birst, Power BI, Microstrategy, Tableau, AWS Quicksight, OBIEE, etc.)
Experience administering BI, AWS/Redshift, and/or Informatica tools (e.g., PowerExhcange, PowerCenter, Data Quality)
Expertise developing customized integrations using BI APIs, Java, Python, JSON, Linux shell scripting, etc.
Experience developing and/or managing BI tool security administration (user, row, column)
Experience in BI tool performance trouble-shooting and tuning
Experience with Cloud ETL tools, e.g., IICS, DMS, Glue, Athena
Experience working in data centers on O&M and DevOps environments
Experience with large DHS systems and/or identity data
Experience in Agile development and/or DevOps methodologies
Certification in AWS Cloud Practitioner, Operations, and/or Specialty domain
COVID-19 Vaccination: GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.
We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.
GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.