Data Analyst

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, an organization’s data has never been a more important aspect in achieving mission and business goals. Our data exploitation experts work with our clients to support their mission and business goals by creating and executing a comprehensive data strategy using the best technology and techniques, given the challenge.

At Steampunk, our goal is to build and execute a data strategy for our clients to coordinate data collection and generation, to align the organization and its data assets in support of the mission, and ultimately to realize mission goals with the strongest effectiveness possible.

For our clients, data is a strategic asset. They are looking to become a facts-based, data-driven, customer-focused organization. To help realize this goal, they are leveraging visual analytics platforms to analyze, visualize, and share information. At Steampunk you will design and develop solutions to high-impact, complex data problems, working with the best and data practitioners around. Our data exploitation approach is tightly integrated with Human-Centered Design and DevSecOps.

We are looking for a Data Analyst to work with our team and our clients to architect and develop data models, data warehouses, lakes, and lakehouses, data governance, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Data Analyst", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

• Work on migration of data environments with performance and reliability.
• Assess, understand, and document data sources
• Address technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products
• Experience working with database / data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS. Alternatively Azure, GCP).
• Key must have skill sets – data modeling, data understanding
• You will be part of our Data Exploitation Practice!

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government
• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of total work experience or equivalent education and experience
• 0-2 years of experience with data model and date warehouse design, including schema design and entity relationship diagrams
• 0-2 years of experience collaborating with management, personas, and engineers to support data quality efforts
• Experience with large-scale data migration
• Experience designing storage and retrieval solutions for both structured and unstructured data, in support of data science pipelines
• Experience designing data platforms for user consumption
• Experience supporting the development of related data artifacts
  • Data Dictionary
  • Entity Relationship Diagrams
  • Data Flow Diagram
  • Data Quality Plan
  • Data Management Plan
  • Data Asset Catalog
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with cloud technology, using AWS or Azure. Knowledge of managed service offerings (e.g. AWS EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift)
• Experience developing specifications for modern large-scale data repositories including development of specifications for cloud-based database solutions
• Understand customer requirements and prioritize for maximum customer / user experience.
• Experience working with software and data science teams to operationalize information
• Experience collaborating with staff, IT customers, and other technical and non-technical staff and contractors at all levels
• Experience working in an agile environment

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $85,000 to $115,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.