Data Collection Engineer

The Swift Group is looking for a Data Collection Engineer specializing in project and system integration to perform dataset collection and exploitation for the customer's operational needs. This includes assessments and consultations with partners in and outside the customer organization for data acquisition and exploitation strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with users to identify and develop system requirements taking into account the desired results, hardware limitations and operating requirements, identified by the client.
• Shall provide operational testing and recommendations for continuous improvement of equipment and software for collection and exploitation.
• Provide coordination across client's organization and business partners to expedite data sharing, processing and governance activities.
• Analyze new technologies, hardware, and software to determine the applicability and need for the existing or proposed system, to include security, storage, and network technology.
• Provide data assessments and prepare analytical reports from datasets.
• Collect and exploit profile, content, or metadata information.
• Evaluate data accessible in the public domain, including foreign social media websites and applications from mobile and stationary platforms.
• Assist in planning and managing multiple projects involving the infrastructure and exploitation platforms

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience with collection and exploitation of data on mobile apps including domestic and foreign.
• Demonstrated experience performing data analysis such as gathering information to determine data sources, data targets, data definitions, and data relationships.
• Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats.
• Demonstrated experience producing technical documentation for operational use.
• Demonstrated experience triaging and troubleshooting data issues.
• Demonstrated experience developing requirements for testing, assessing applications, and systems for data management.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience with image analysis, manipulation, and processing in Photoshop or similar tools.
• Demonstrated on-the-job experience working both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience transferring and handling sensitive data.
• Demonstrated experience preparing task plans, task documentation, and overall activity reporting documents.
• Demonstrated experience developing data ingestion tools that extract, transform and load the data based upon data mappings.
• Demonstrated experience building databases and developing software applications to manage the extraction, transformation and loading of data.
• Demonstrated experience performing data modeling, data testing and data documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with data management such as versioning of data and backups.
• Demonstrated experience working with users to define requirements for analysts or operational customers.
• HS Diploma
• US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with technical collection.
• BA/BS Degree

The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.