Data Engineer (Remote)
Data Engineer (Remote)
Want to be part of a rare opportunity to help one of the world’s largest organizations (by data or people) nail down a futuristic data architecture for its next century?
Position summary
Are you a seasoned relational data modeler with an ambition to expand your career with geospatial data management? Do you pay your technical debts before your internet bill? Is your wardrobe scalable, reliable, and maintainable? Motivf is looking for a software engineer familiar with data modeling ready to design and architect geospatial web applications in an agile team environment. Do you weigh the tradeoffs of Mercator and Lambert for fun? This work depends heavily on principles of spatial information management for our enterprise Government clients.
Help the U.S. DOD’s Asset Management group combine 6 existing information systems into one new, optimal architecture leveraging geospatial information.
In our highly experienced, collaborative, and creative team, you will analyze the underlying data architecture of existing systems and their usage in multileveled operational procedures to formulate new data architecture and strategic data models to improve operations. This project will improve our efficiency to support client logistics, strategy, and mission. This work affects DoD locations worldwide.
Career Development:
In this role you will have the opportunity to learn by:
- Working with senior program leaders to leverage your experience architecting enterprise data models.
- Abstracting up from low-level information to diagram recommended information flows.
- Weighing systematic tradeoffs of your technical decisions.
- Learning database technologies and design databases using the models created by you and the team.
Your Responsibilities:
- Perform work and engage in team communications during Eastern business hours.
- Demonstrate understanding of the tradeoffs between legacy and emergent relational database technologies (Oracle/MySQL/Postgresql).
- Produce technical documentation such as designs, process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, decision trees, and data dictionaries.
- Clearly explain your technical recommendations to technical and non-technical collaborators, including project leadership and the client.
Required Qualifications:
- U.S. citizenship with ability to work in the United States.
- Ability to pass a background investigation (see https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/security-clearance-jobs/security-clearance-eligibility.html)
- Per federal mandate, proof of completed COVID vaccination by December 8, 2021.
- Mature sense of self and awareness of your own normal cognitive biases.
- Experience creating data models and building databases.
- Stellar communication and interpersonal skills. You will be asked to work collaboratively with Product Owners and Subject Matter Experts to identify and understand requirements.
- Willingness to promote Agile software development best practices in a hybrid Agile/waterfall project environment.
- Manage workloads across multiple tasks.
- Deliver data diagrams and database models within agreed timeframes.
Welcome to Motivf
We are a growing consulting company that provides brands, companies, and government organizations around the world with creative teams, Design Ops leadership, human-centered design, and Agile and Lean expertise. The worlds of design, management, and technology intersect to transform the way we work, play, and communicate. Whether working remotely or on the road, we believe in our people, and we understand that quality of life directly impacts quality of work. We pride ourselves on our flexible work environment and distinctive global culture.
WHAT WE OFFER
MEANING and PURPOSE at MOTIVF
- Management Culture and Philosophy: At Motivf, we seek joy at work, so we prioritize psychological safety (the #1 trait of great teams), creativity, engagement, learning, human connection, and the meaning of the work. We minimize micromanagement by practicing agile-style self-management for maximum autonomy and engagement. Team members are largely accountable to each other, while their manager’s job is to coach them to career-defining performance and otherwise stay out of the way. We strive to hire managers people want to work for.
- Purpose. Motivf is a Certified B Corporation: we meet the highest, verified standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
- How We Value People. We believe talents, like empathy and strategy, analysis and learning, and drive (or passion and motivation) lead to greater engagement by you and productivity for us than arbitrary requirements of prior experience, having the right keywords of skills or knowledge, or degrees that may not be necessary. That’s true equal opportunity, and true respect for the individual and their unique story.
Regardless of how any job description is written, if you think you can do the job, we invite you to make a case for it! We’d love to hear how your unique blend of talents and drive can equip you to succeed in this role, including as it changes over time.
CAREER and PERSONAL GROWTH AND LEARNING
- Career Path and Advancement. We’re passionate about your growth - as a person and in your career. Every Motivf teammate can choose from one or both of 2 career advancement tracks: (1) Leadership/People Development and (2) Expertise Development. In order to advance in a career, not everyone has to be good at managing people. Some people just want to keep learning and keep getting better at what they do.
- Continuous Learning. Because we work in a rich web of disciplines, fields, clients, and industries, opportunities for creativity and learning are everywhere. You’ll enjoy abundant redeployment opportunities. Because we do many kinds of projects for many kinds of clients, we always have interesting jobs to learn and do, and we’re able to assign you to work based on your talents, drive, and interests.
- Powerful Learning Network. Many of our clients include their members in our Agile SCRUM teams. We have also done prime and subcontracts with over 30 partners, with whom we often share Slack channels and physical workspaces.