Database Engineer

Tripoint Solutions is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team.

The Data Engineer will be part of a team responsible for ensuring the success of a highly visible, results-driven federal client through the development of a cloud-based next generation system.

This position requires the applicant to parse disparate data sources, including structured and unstructured elements, to find the patterns and meaning in large quantities of data. The successful candidate will leverage machine learning as well as best of breed pipeline technology to process and store a variety of data elements.

Location: This position is eligible for fully remote work.  Selected candidates living within a 25 miles radius of the NITAAC office in Rockville, MD will be required to come into the office once a week.  The selected candidate must be currently located in, or willing to relocate to, a state supported by Tripoint Solutions corporate offices (AL, DC, FL, IL, LA, MD, MI, MN, MS, NJ, NC, PA, TN, TX, or VA).

The successful candidate will be accountable to:

• Design and implement efficient and scalable relational database systems in a cloud environment, including schema design, indexing, and partitioning strategies.
• Perform database administration tasks such as installing, configuring, and maintaining database software, ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability.
• Monitor database performance and resource utilization, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and optimizing SQL queries for improved efficiency.
• Develop and maintain backup and recovery procedures, ensuring data integrity and implementing disaster recovery solutions to minimize downtime.
• Manage database security, including access controls, and auditing mechanisms, to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or breaches.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and troubleshoot database-related issues.
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or SQL scripting to streamline database provisioning, monitoring, optimizing data delivery, and maintenance activities.
• Building analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Strong interest to learn and stay up to date on relevant technologies, trends, industry standards and identify new ones to implement.

Experience, Education & Training:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, Analytics, Statistics, Informatics, Information Technology or equivalent quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist role designing and implementing relational database systems for cloud applications.
• 3+ years of strong proficiency in database administration tasks, including installation, configuration, and performance tuning of database software.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with database backup and recovery procedures, including disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Experience in automating database tasks using scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or SQL scripting.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in agile cross-functional development teams.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies, with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
• Experience building processes supporting data integration, transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• Demonstrated success in manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected data sets.
• Demonstrated accomplishments in designing, coding, testing and supporting data analytics and reporting solutions in a cloud environment.
• Concept experience; information retrieval, search engine, document data extraction
• Preferred experience with AWS cloud services: Textract, Comprehend, GlueMaker, Athena, Notebook
• Working knowledge of message queueing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.

Clearance Requirements:

Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for potential access to classified information. Accordingly, US Citizenship or Green Card is required.

About Tripoint Solutions

We are technology innovators, partnered with state-of-the-art providers, such as AWS, ServiceNow, and UiPath, to drive digital transformation in the federal space. TPS teams are bringing automation and data science into areas of the government that are crying out for fresh tech—making positive impacts felt by tens of thousands of users, countless citizens, and all six branches of the military each day. Our Agile teams are responsible for envisioning, launching, and operating the massive data systems and analytics platforms used to manage $14.5B in government procurements and $200B in military real estate assets globally. At TPS, we apply the power of cloud technologies to help the government think smarter and function better—for everyone.

TPS Company Values

• We value and respect each employee's dedicated work and unique contributions; as they directly impact who we are and what we do.  
• Your talent and innovative thinking bring leading-edge solutions to our customers.
• Our success is driven by the dedication of our employees.
• Employee-generated solutions have sustained our continued success and customer satisfaction

Benefit Offerings
Tripoint Solutions builds flexibility into health benefit plan choices, covers most of the monthly premiums, and helps employees build a career with impact through our generous professional development program.

We offer all full-time employees:

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits with a national provider network (company pays 100% of Vision and Dental premiums)
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts (FSA & HSA)
• Company-paid Life and Disability insurance including Short-Term, Long-Term, and Accidental
• Paid-time off (PTO), accruing with each year of service, up to 20 days, plus 11 paid holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - No waiting period to contribute and company makes 3% contribution of eligible pay in addition to annual profit-sharing contribution option
• Eligibility to receive impact bonuses each quarter
• Referral Program
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program to pursue undergraduate, graduate, training, and certifications
• Monthly transportation, parking, and cell phone service reimbursement

COVID-19 Related Information

Tripoint Solutions does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. However, to protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, Tripoint Solutions 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. Furthermore, remote work arrangements are subject to change based on customer site requirements. 
 
Tripoint Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled