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Data Engineer

KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects : KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment : Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work : Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

As a Data Engineer, you will be a critical part of the team that is responsible for enabling the development of data-driven decision analysis products through the innovative application, and promotion, of novel methods from data science, machine learning, and operations research in order to provide robust and flexible testing and evaluation capabilities to support DoD modernization.

You will be part of a technical team responsible for providing analytic consulting services, supporting analytic workflow and product development and testing, promoting the user adoption of methods and best practices from data science, conducting applied methods projects, and supporting the creation of analysis-ready data.

When supporting at sites, you will be the face of the CHEETAS team and will be responsible for ensuring stakeholders have the analytical tools, data products and reports they need to make insightful recommendations based on your data driven analysis.

You will be directly assisting both analyst / technical and non-analyst / non-technical stakeholders with the analysis of DoD datasets and demonstrating the art of the possible to the stakeholders and VIPs with insights gained from your analysis of DoD Test and Evaluation (T&E) data.

As such this position requires the ability to effectively communicate at both a programmatic and technical level. Although you potentially may be the only team member physically on-site supporting you will not be alone.

You will have reach-back support from other data science team members as well as the software engineering and system administration teams.

While onsite, you will be responsible for running and operating CHEETAS (and other tools); demonstrating these tools to stakeholders & VIPs; conveying analysis results; adapting internally-developed tools, notebooks and reports to meet emerging needs; gathering use cases, requirements, gaps and needs from stakeholders and for larger development items providing that information as feature requests or bug reports to the CHEETAS development team; and performing impromptu hands-on training sessions with end users and potentially troubleshooting problems from within closed networks without internet access (with support from distributed team members).

Successful candidates must be self-motivated and capable of working independently with little supervision / direct tasking.

Data Engineers with 10+ years of DoD experience are welcome to apply however our preference is for candidates with 15+ years of DoD experience.

This position will require travel of 25% with potential surge to 50% to support end users located at various DoD ranges & labs located across the US (including Alaska and Hawaii). When not supporting a site, this position can work remotely or from a nearby KBR office (if available and desired). Come join the ITEA award-winning TRMC BDKM team and be a part of the team responsible for revolutionizing how analysis is performed across the entire Department of Defense!

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