AWS Data Engineer - Military Veterans

AWS Data Engineer

Position Description
CGI is in the top 5 of largest global IT companies, spread across 40 countries, with endless opportunities to expand and grow your career. As a CGI Member, you have the opportunity to be a shareholder at CGI and join a family of over 90,000 members strong. Would you like to grow with an IT organization offering greater opportunities and challenges? Join the CGI team and get your career on the fast track! CGI is in the top 5 largest global IT companies spread across 40 countries with endless opportunities to expand and grow. As a CGI Member, you have the opportunity to be a shareholder at CGI and join a family of over 90,000 members strong. Would you like to grow with an IT organization offering greater opportunity and challenge? Join the CGI team and get your career on the fast track!
Want to leverage your experience and development skills in the Judicial Sector as an AWS Data Engineer?
CGI seeks a data engineer for a high-volume data ingestion and search modernization effort. The data engineer will provide key features in the modern system, including: creating high-volume data ingestion pipelines for artifacts from legacy systems, automate the analysis of the ingested artifacts, and create knowledge bases using the latest artificial intelligence models. The data engineer will be involved in the modern system's data architecture, pipeline version control, data lineage tracking, and automated testing. Data quality management and traceability will be integrated into the automated pipelines.
The data engineer will apply software engineering best practices throughout their work and leverage the latest cloud technologies to innovate and provide value to our customers.
This position is located in our Lafayette, LA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities
Our AWS Data Engineer will be a key contributor with the below responsibilities:

• Work with the technical development team and team leader to understand desired application capabilities.



• Work with clients and legacy systems to setup ingestion pipelines that pull new and updated artifacts into knowledge bases.



• Continuously improve machine learning models



• Design and apply data architectures that enable both field-based search and semantic search.



• Understand conflicting artifacts and prioritize accurate or more recent artifacts within the knowledge bases.



• Work within and across Agile teams to test and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies.



• Develop applications in AWS - data and analytics technologies including, but not limited

to: OpenSearch, RDS, S3, Athena; Lambda, Step Functions, Glue; Sagemaker, Textract, Comprehend, Bedrock, AI Chatbot/Lex; SQS, SNS; CloudTrail, CloudWatch; VPC, EC2, ECS and IAM.

• Application development by lifecycles, & continuous integration/deployment practices.



• Work to integrate open-source components into data-analytic solutions.



• Working with vendors to enhance tool capabilities to meet enterprise needs.



• Willingness to continuously learn & share learnings with others.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Proficient in navigating the AWS console and programmatic interaction with AWS through the AWS Python SDKs and AWS CLI.



• Hands on experience with AWS services, such as: RDS, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, SQS, SNS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC, EC2 and IAM.



• Proficiency in Python: Data structures, writing custom classes/modules, object-oriented code organization, data extraction/transformation/serialization, database/API interaction, creating virtual environments, and the AWS Python SDK.



• Deep experience with troubleshooting complex end-to-end data processing issues whose causes may stem from: library code, workflow logic, API inconsistencies, network issues, corrupt data, out-of-order updates, and AI hallucinations.



• Hands on experience with high-volume data application development and version control systems such as Git.



• Hands on experience in implementing data ingestion processes incorporating ETL processes.



• Hands on experience in data modeling and relational database design of large datasets



• Knowledge of application development lifecycles, & continuous integration/deployment practices.



• 7-10 years experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly-visible distributed systems.



• Knowledge of IaC using terraform is preferred.



• Agile development experience

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:
DevOps practices: IaC for pipelines, pipeline monitoring and logging, code versioning, data versioning, container writing

• Experience working with the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence)



• Hands on experience with reading and writing into DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases; Redshift



• API design; API Gateway Experience



• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch Experience



• AWS Certifications



• Agile or SAFe Certificat

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and license and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $77,200.00 - $168,900.00.
At CGI we call our professionals "members" to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners,
empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company.
CGI's benefits include:

• Competitive compensation



• Comprehensive insurance options



• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan



• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time



• Paid maternity and parental leave



• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance



• Member assistance and wellness programs

Due to the nature of this government contract, US Citizenship is required.
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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.

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