Junior Data Engineer (ETL/GIS) at Peraton · Remote (United States)
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Databricks
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Geospatial
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Python
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Scala
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2+ years of experience
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Education
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The ad says: “Bachelor’s degree and 0 years of professional experience, or an Associate’s degree and 2 years of professional experience, or a high school diploma/equivalent and 4 years of professional experience.”
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Licence or certification
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The ad says: “U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; all work must be performed within the United States.”
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Experience with data quality validation, source-to-target mapping, and data transformation
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Experience with data modeling or schema design documentation
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Experience documenting test/ingest results and logging defects with severity classifications
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Proficiency in SQL for querying, validating, and transforming data within the cloud data lakehouse environment
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Why they ask: Core skill.
How to answer: Ingestion, storage, orchestration, idempotency, backfills, monitoring.
Why they ask: Data correctness.
How to answer: Watermarks, dedup keys, reprocessing windows.
Why they ask: Databricks is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: GIS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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