Full Stack Data Engineer
Location: All LocationsOcto, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.
Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region's best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!
You...
As a Full Stack Data Engineer with Octo, you will add to our dynamic team supporting highly visible federal contracts and company initiatives. The right candidate will have hands on experience working at all tiers of an application and supporting multiple information retrieval systems to building data driven products. You will be passionate about discovering hidden secrets in piles of data and have an engineering mindset to build new products or improve existing ones based on that insight.
Us...
We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client's missions.
The Program Mission...
This program will support the General Services Administration's Information Technology mission to provide development and operational support of new and existing legacy mission-enabling applications. The team is leveraging data to improve user experience of our platform, some of the things you will be working include:
- Improve product recommendations for an eCommerce site
- Improve search relevance through analysis of existing searching patterns, adjusting synonyms and identifying gaps in performance
- Improve algorithms that detect duplicate / similar products and services
- Write algorithms to leverage clickstream data to create a more personalized user experience
- Leverage NLP to perform entity extraction of information from unstructured data
Skills & RequirementsRequirements...
Desired Skills...
* Intermediate proficiency in Perl
* Previous experience with any of the following technologies:
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Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
Location: Remote
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
Octo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.
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