Context Layer Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Location
McLean, VA
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Full-time
Posted
54 days ago
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Dec 1, 2026
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Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

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TL;DR · Context Layer Engineer

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As a Context Layer Engineer, you will join a team dedicated to designing systems that interpret, enrich, and operationalize context across complex data and AI ecosystems. You will architect and optimize the contextual intelligence layer for advanced analytics, reporting pipelines, and machine learning models. Your daily responsibilities include collaborating with clients to translate mission needs into context models, ontologies, and enrichment logic. You will lead the development of algorithms to unify disparate data sources, resolve entities, and deliver structured context to downstream applications. Required skills include experience in data exploration, cleaning, analysis, and visualization using R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL. You should also possess expertise in natural language processing, text mining, and machine learning techniques to support operational AI and quantitative analyses.

Skills

Python R SQL NoSQL Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Spark Kafka Hadoop Hive EMR MySQL dbt Databricks MapReduce Gurobi Data Mining Data Visualization

What you'll do

  • Architect and optimize the contextual intelligence layer for advanced analytics and machine learning models.
  • Translate client mission needs into context models, ontologies, and enrichment logic.
  • Develop systems and algorithms to unify disparate data sources and resolve entities.
  • Build resilient context pipelines to enhance model performance and support intelligent automation.
  • Incorporate domain knowledge into data structures to deliver structured context to downstream applications.
  • Engineer the connective tissue between raw data and operational AI to provide decision-quality insights.
  • Lead the development of technical solutions for complex programs using Python, R, or SQL.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining.
  • 5+ years of experience analyzing structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Experience in data manipulation leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL.
  • Experience supporting operational AI, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources.
  • Experience leading the development of solutions to complex programs.
  • Experience with natural language processing, text mining, or machine learning techniques.
  • Bachelor’s degree.

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