Data Engineer with Scala/Spark and Java

Comtech LLC is a woman-owned small business focused on delivering end-to-end solutions and products. Since 1998, we have successfully serviced enterprises across the public and private sectors, and the Department of Defense. Our services span all aspects of business, providing a holistic approach for managing an organization.

Job Description

Primary Skills:

• 8+ years experience in Java, Python, and Scala
• Experience with Spark and Machine Learning (3+ years)
• Data mining and data analysis

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, writing SQL queries, etc.).
• Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and build algorithms.
• Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis – and then perform the analysis.
• Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed.
• Extract data from a variety of relational databases and manipulate, explore data using quantitative, statistical, and visualization tools.
• Inform the selection of appropriate modeling techniques to ensure that predictive models are developed using rigorous statistical processes.
• Establish and maintain effective processes for validating and updating predictive models.
• Analyze, model, and forecast health service utilization patterns/trends and create capability to model outcomes of what-if scenarios for novel health care delivery models.
• Collaborate with internal business, analytics, and data strategy partners to improve efficiency and increase applicability of predictive models into the core software products.
• Perform statistical analysis to prioritize in order to maximize success.
• Identify areas for improvement, communicating action plans.
• Perform strategic data analysis and research to support business needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity via sophisticated statistical modeling.
• Explore data to identify opportunities to improve business results.
• Develop an understanding of business processes, goals, and strategy in order to provide analysis and interpretation to management.
• Gain understanding of business needs and necessary analysis where appropriate through internal discussion.

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters in a related field.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.