Job Description
Overview DRT Strategies delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to large federal agencies, the U.S. Navy, state and local government and commercial clients in health care, technology, and financial services industries.
The three letters of our name, DRT, stand for Driving Resolution Together, which is the core philosophy on which the company was founded. That is, we collaborate with our clients to solve their most pressing challenges - together.
We are problem solvers dedicated to your success, combining Fortune 500 experience with small business responsiveness. We have established a reputation with our clients as a forward-thinking consulting firm with demonstrated success in implementing solutions that lead to meaningful results. Our world-class consultants unite people to work collaboratively to achieve project goals and make vision a reality.
Project Description: FDA releases sanitized regulatory diverse data sets to external healthcare stakeholders and make the data more accessible and optimized for use by external stakeholders. The release of the data encourage the external stakeholders to integrate FDA data into their ecosystem that will improve the delivery of healthcare which correlates with better health outcomes.
Job Summary: The Data Engineer will play a key role in architecting and developing scalable, reliable data pipelines, proactively identifying and resolving platform issues, and supporting end-to-end data workflows. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data accuracy, availability, and performance—enabling efficient operations and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities: - Design and implement solutions for data ingestion, storage, application performance management, dashboards, anomaly detection, and analytics, ensuring high performance and scalability.
- Implement schema enforcement, data quality checks, and operational monitoring.
- Support data needs, including building or modifying datasets used for analysis and modeling.
- Participate in Tier 1/Tier 2 triage of platform issues, including job failures, data anomalies, and service reliability.
- Address ad hoc engineering tickets, including enhancements, bug fixes, and tactical data requests.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate data delivery.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, test coverage, and documentation practices.
- Support other project activities and DRT activities as directed by Project Manager and/or Portfolio Manager.
Require Experience: - 5+ years of experience in data engineering activities (e.g., data pipelines, ETL)
- Strong proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, NodeJS, Java, SQL etc.)
- Strong expertise in system design, data architecture, automation and scalability
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools
- Working experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), data engineering tools (Airflow, AWS EMR) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
- Familiarity with monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines and production jobs
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
Preferred Experience: Education & Training: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
Salary Range: - $95,000-$125,000
- Salary commensurate with experience.
Company Benefits: DRT offers full-time benefit eligible employees a competitive total compensation package. Employees may begin participating in employer sponsored group medical, dental, and vision coverage on their first day of employment. DRT also has a 401(K)-retirement plan, company paid short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D coverage, and an employee assistant program (EAP). Employees may also elect critical illness coverage, accident coverage, flexible spending accounts, and health saving account options. The DRT leave programs include Paid Time Off (PTO) each calendar year, paid holidays annually, paid parental leave, and unpaid job protected leave administered in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
EEO Commitment DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) celebrates diversity and is proud to provide Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local laws.
Reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities will be provided. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources by emailing HR@drtstrategies.com , or by dialing 571-482-2517.
DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) follows the guidelines outlined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to provide all employees and qualified applicants employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.
Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities will be provided. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Human Resources by emailing HR@drtstrategies.com, or by dialing 571-482-2517.
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