Leidos
Principal Data Engineer - Full-time
Bethesda, Maryland · Principal · Full-time
No sponsorship$131k-$237kDetected 24 days ago
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55Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role65
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Green-card follow-through: 62%
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About the role
- Description** • *Leidos** has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer in our **Intel Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area**.
Responsibilities
- + **Platform Development & Administration**: Design, develop, and maintain probabilistic matching configurations, algorithms, and scoring models to ensure accurate entity resolution across multi-domain data sources.
- + **Full Lifecycle Management**: Oversee data model design, implementation, testing, deployment, and environment administration to ensure high availability and performance.
- + **Matching & Resolution Expertise**: Configure and optimize standardization, bucketing, and comparison algorithms; design custom rules, weights, and thresholds; and apply advanced techniques to consolidate records across disparate sources.
- + **Quality & Effectiveness Monitoring**: Perform match tuning, false positive/negative analysis, threshold optimization, and maintain data quality scorecards and effectiveness metrics.
- + **Performance & Scalability**: Optimize database performance through indexing, partitioning, and query tuning; monitor systems; and conduct capacity planning and performance testing.
- + **Collaboration & Leadership**: Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions, document architecture and procedures, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
- We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to execute the design, development and administration of an enterprise-scale Next Generation Correlation/Entity Resolution platform.
- This position supports a mission-critical system that serves as a foundational data exploitation capability servicing multiple applications/use cases.
Requirements
- + Hands-on experience with probabilistic matching and entity resolution solutions, including translating business requirements into technical configurations
- + Strong knowledge of entity resolution concepts, data linkage theory, and matching algorithms (Fellegi-Sunter, distance metrics, phonetic approaches)
- + Expertise in data quality dimensions, tokenization, standardization, and normalization techniques to improve matching effectiveness
- + Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with proven experience in data analysis and pattern recognition
- + Proficiency in SQL and enterprise relational databases (Oracle) within large-scale environments, including performance tuning for high-volume transactional systems
- + Experience with enterprise ETL platforms, data integration tools, and maintaining large-scale, cloud-based Linux information systems
- + BS degree with 12 or more years of relevant experience
- or Masters degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
- Will consider additional relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
- + **Must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance**
Nice to have
- + Background in statistics, data science, or computational linguistics with hands-on experience with enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) platforms (e.g., IBM InfoSphere MDM)
- + Experience with IBM InfoSphere MDM administrative tools, workbench, and configuration utilities
- + Professional certification in Master Data Management, Data Quality or Database Administration
- + Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Oracle, Azure) and leveraging cloud data services (e.g., S3, RDS, SQS)
- + Familiarity with Java or similar programming languages for custom extensions and matching algorithm development
- At **Leidos**, the opportunities are boundless.
- We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally.
- For us, helping you grow your career is good business.
Compensation
- Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
- The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
- Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.
- Pay and Benefits**
- That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.
- Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
Benefits
- Pay and Benefits**
Company info
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it.
Visa & Work Authorization
- + **Must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance**
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