Data Architect

Company: Quadrant 8 Technologies
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Quadrant 8 Technologies is an IT professional services company based in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. Our core specialization is cloud computing, serverless application design, development, and architecture. We deliver modern and innovative technological solutions for government and intelligence agencies by addressing their strategic issues to successfully support mission objectives across the region. We achieve these goals by possessing high-level talent, equipping them with the training, tools, and advantages necessary to excel in their missions. At Quadrant 8 Technologies, we understand that our team is the most critical aspect to achieving success.

We are seeking a single resource to support the migration of legacy data and support development of new system capabilities and enhancements for a geospatial application in the Sponsor's cloud computing environment. The Sponsor is seeking an individual experienced with extract, load, and transform (ETL) techniques for migrating legacy system data into a newly developed geospatial system in a cloud computing environment. Additionally, the individual should possess a breadth and depth of technical expertise in the areas of UI/UX development, developing RESTFUL services, developing backend services, and processing of imagery for a geospatial application.

Team members will be expected of the following:

• Be part of a larger team comprised of additional software developers, software engineers, data scientists, and data engineers.
• Work in collaboration with other existing Sponsor staff and contractors to enhance scalability of data science capabilities to allow for greater audience use.
• Work closely with data scientists and software developers to architect and improve upon current functionalities of machine learning capabilities.
• Be directly involved in designing, developing, and testing requirements for a citizen development exploitation platform that allow for data science implementation of machine learning models and capabilities.
• Provide interface development as well as connections into the Sponsor's cloud-based production environment.
• Design, develop, and maintain applications within the cloud environment.
• Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation.
• Compile and write documentation for program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instruction so others can understand the program.
• Write instructions or manuals to guide end users.
• Review code and backend architecture of capabilities developed by developer and data science personnel.
• Develop embedder models, to determine the larger scale applicability of current AI technologies.
• Work with other developers and data scientists to create a common data model for multiple systems.
• Develop capabilities that encompass speech to text technologies.
  
  Requirements
  
  Applicants should have the following required skills, certifications, and demonstrated experience:
  
  • Demonstrated experience working in a data science development environment.
  • Demonstrated experience providing architectural guidance from prototype to enterprise scale.
  • Demonstrated experience working with software developers and data scientists on architecting new data lakes for citizen development.
  • Demonstrated experience working with data scientists and AI technologies to include leveraging embedder models to solve enterprise solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience developing prototype software solutions for cyber exploitation.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Speech to Text technologies.
  • Demonstrated experience with Data Modeling.
  • Demonstrated experience preparing detailed workflow charts and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operations and convert them into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and developing tools that integrate with commercial applications.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and directing software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting trial runs of program and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct.
  • Demonstrated experience compiling and writing documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instruction so others can understand the program.
  • Demonstrated experience writing, analyzing, reviewing, and rewriting programs, using workflow charts and diagrams, and apply knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, and symbolic logic.
  • Demonstrated experience writing or contributing to instructions or manuals to guide end users.
  • Demonstrated experience reviewing code and backend architecture of capabilities developed by developer and data science personnel.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and maintaining applications within the cloud environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in Java/Javascript.
  • Demonstrated experience in Application Development and Programming and full life cycle development.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Linux Servers.
  • Demonstrated experience with Python.
    
    Benefits
    
    
    • Leading industry salary
    • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
    • 401k Retirement Plan + Yearly Profit Sharing Contribution
    • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
    • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) up to 35 days per year
    • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
    • Short Term & Long Term Disability
    • Training & Development
    • Wellness Resources (Gym membership)

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