Data Engineer — Portfolio Integration and Decision Support for NATO with security clearance at WLG
Albania
Posted
on-site · full_time · Visa sponsorship
Responsibilities:
- Relocate to Norfolk, VA (NATO-5 visa provided) and join as a full-time employee on a long-term engagement.
- Perform hands-on data integration and engineering across infrastructure programmes: ingest, transform, reconcile and validate multiple data sources.
- Work directly with programme managers, analysts and data owners to capture decision requirements and translate them into data solutions.
- Design, build and maintain repeatable ETL pipelines, data models, business rules and quality checks.
- Prototype digital data-collection and workflow tools to replace manual spreadsheets and streamline reporting.
- Create dashboards, metrics and visualisations that reveal programme status, dependencies and risks.
- Apply descriptive, diagnostic and, where appropriate, predictive techniques to support operational decisions.
- Document sources, lineage, transformations and operating procedures for handover and sustainment.
Requirements:
- University degree in data science, CS, information systems, engineering, operations research, statistics or equivalent experience.
- Recent end-to-end delivery experience from problem identification to operational solution.
- At least 3 of the last 5 years in data integration/engineering with hands-on work in the last 2 years.
- At least 2 of the last 5 years using SQL and an analytical language (e.g., Python, R), hands-on in the last 2 years.
- Experience building digital data-collection/workflow solutions and business intelligence products.
- Strong data modelling, quality, governance and documentation skills; ability to fix lineage and ownership issues.
- Experience working directly with operational users and programme staff; fluent professional English.