Data Engineer — Portfolio Integration and Decision Support for NATO with security clearance at WLG
Belgium
Posted
on-site · full_time · Visa sponsorship
Responsibilities:
- Relocate to Norfolk, VA (NATO-5 visa provided) and deliver long-term, operational data engineering support.
- Engage with programme managers, analysts and data owners to capture decision needs and translate them into data requirements.
- Design, build, test and maintain repeatable ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, transform and reconcile data from multiple authoritative and ad-hoc sources.
- Create and maintain data models, common definitions, business rules and lineage to ensure trustworthy outputs.
- Prototype and deploy digital data-collection and workflow tools to replace manual spreadsheets.
- Produce dashboards, visualisations and metrics to show programme status, dependencies and trends.
- Apply descriptive and diagnostic analysis, and introduce predictive models only when they materially improve decisions.
- Identify and remediate data quality, ownership, governance and lineage issues; document sources, transformations and operating procedures for handover.
Requirements:
- University degree in data science, CS, information systems, engineering, operations research, statistics or equivalent experience.
- Recent proven end-to-end delivery from need identification to operational solution.
- Minimum ~3 of last 5 years in data integration/engineering with hands-on work in last 2 years.
- At least ~2 of last 5 years using SQL and an analytical language (hands-on recently).
- Experience building BI products, data modelling, quality controls and governance practices.
- Experience designing or building digital data-collection and workflow solutions.
- Experience documenting and handing over solutions to operational teams.
- At least ~2 of last 5 years working directly with operational users and programme staff.
- Fluent professional English.