Grafana Data Engineer Senior
General Dynamics Information Technology10 days ago
Fort Belvoir, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$153k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, build, and integrate secure, configurable dashboards, self-service reporting, and predictive analytics in Grafana and Power BI.
- Create interactive visualizations and reports that communicate business insights and support operational decision-making.
- Coordinate data replication and feeds for downstream stakeholders and external systems.
- Monitor analytical query and dashboard performance against service-level targets.
- Define KPI and metric ingestion requirements and translate business needs into technical designs and insights.
- Extract, transform, and ingest data from databases, APIs, and data warehouses using SQL, Python, and ETL tools.
- Implement and validate SQL logic, calculations, metric definitions, analytical data models, and semantic layers.
- Maintain and optimize data connections, queries, reporting frameworks, and platform performance.
- Coordinate with data engineering teams to resolve upstream data issues and curate reporting data.
- Apply visualization standards, documentation, data governance, metadata, lineage, classification, privacy, access-control, and security practices.
- Support architecture documents, governance artifacts, metadata catalog processes, testing, acceptance criteria, and requirements refinement.
- Drive platform improvement through automation, performance tuning, metadata management, predictive analytics, and self-service BI.
- Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, analysts, UX designers, business leaders, and program leadership.
- Drive adoption of dashboards and reporting tools and present recommendations to customer stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science or a closely related discipline is required; a bachelor's degree in computer science or another relevant field is preferred but not required.
- At least 5 years of business intelligence development experience, including at least 3 years with Grafana and Power BI.
- Strong hands-on Grafana and Power BI experience, advanced SQL skills, Python proficiency, and expertise in data transformations for large-scale analytical data systems.
- Strong PromQL or LogQL knowledge and a strong foundation in data modeling, data warehousing, ETL processes, and semantic layers.
- Familiarity with the full LTGM stack, SNOW dashboard development, Python automation scripting, and maintaining Kubernetes environments.
- Experience delivering reporting in regulated or high-sensitivity data environments.
- Experience supporting testing by writing acceptance criteria and confirming test-case results.
- Experience producing current requirements, sizing user stories, and removing roadblocks before sprint starts.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, communication, collaboration, and customer relationship skills.
- Experience identifying and applying industry tools, methods, best practices, and emerging technologies.
- Must possess and maintain DOD 8140 certification (CompTIA Security+).
- Must possess and maintain an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and be a US citizen.
- Must be able to work on the customer site at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, disability, life, accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance options.
- 401(k) plan with company matching and pre-tax and post-tax contribution options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible and an award-winning, military-friendly culture.
- Internal mobility support, an AI-powered career development tool, and learning and growth opportunities.
- Full-time onsite work at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with 40 scheduled hours per week and less than 10% travel.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.