Data Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type: On-site
Location: Huntsville, AL
Salary: $77,500–$176,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 47 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Dec 8, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

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

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 1662 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Data Engineer, Senior

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Data Engineer, Senior As a Data Engineer, Senior, you will join a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, developers, and data consumers to build advanced technology solutions for mission-driven projects. You will manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms, deploying pipelines that organize disparate data into meaningful insights for areas like fraud detection and cancer research. Your daily work involves building scalable ETL or ELT pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming workflows, and parsing structured or unstructured data. You will utilize technologies including Postgres, SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, and Java, alongside tools like Apache NiFi, Databricks, and AWS or Azure cloud products. You must possess a Top Secret clearance and experience with data lake architecture, governance policies, and lifecycle management to solve complex data integration problems.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $159000 from 203 postings across 58 companies.

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Skills

Python SQL Apache Spark Databricks AWS Azure Scala Java Apache NiFi Airflow Snowflake Redshift BigQuery ETL ELT Jenkins GitHub Elasticsearch MongoDB NoSQL RESTful API Machine Learning Data Lake

What you'll do

Design, build, and maintain scalable data platforms and warehouse architectures for clients.
Develop and deploy automated ETL and ELT pipelines for large-scale batch and streaming data.
Parse and organize structured, unstructured, and event-streaming data from disparate sources.
Perform tuning on data lake architectures to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
Manage data cataloging, usage, governance policies, and lifecycle management solutions.
Implement advanced technology solutions for mission-driven projects like fraud detection and research.
Create and improve continuous automation across multiple technical stacks and CI/CD pipelines.

What we're looking for

Top Secret clearance.
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems.
12+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems in lieu of a degree.
6+ years of experience designing data warehouse or data lake, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for software systems.
6+ years of experience building scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines and automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows.
6+ years of experience coding in software programming languages including Postgres, SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
Experience using Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, or Databricks.
Experience performing tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.

Data Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton

Charlottesville, VA 42 days ago

Python SQL Scala Java ETL ELT Spark Databricks Hadoop Hive AWS EMR Kafka Terraform Kubernetes Docker UNIX Linux Bash Ansible YAML AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud MongoDB Cassandra AWS Redshift MySQL Snowflake Agile GitLab GitHub Bitbucket Jira Confluence

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