Senior Data Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
Huntsville, AL
Salary
$77,500–$176,000 / yr
Posted
13 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $173k
This role $127k
$62k most similar roles pay here $225k

This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $143,697–$202,911 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $127k versus about $173k for comparable roles.

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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 802 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer, Senior, you will join a multi-disciplinary team in an agile environment to develop and deploy pipelines and platforms that organize disparate data into meaningful insights. You will manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable systems while performing tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and performance. The role involves building ETL or ELT pipelines, automating batch and streaming workflows, and parsing structured or unstructured data for mission-driven projects like fraud detection and cancer research. Required technical skills include SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java, along with experience in RESTful API models and data management solutions. You may also utilize tools such as AWS EMR, Glue, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow, NiFi, Jenkins, GitHub, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Elasticsearch.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $183138 from 214 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable data warehouse and data lake architectures.
  • Build and automate large-scale batch and streaming ETL/ELT data pipelines.
  • Develop platforms to organize and process structured, unstructured, and event-streaming data.
  • Perform tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
  • Manage data governance policies, including cataloging, usage tracking, and lifecycle management.
  • Write production code using SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
  • Implement automated CI/CD pipelines across multiple technical stacks.
  • Maintain and operationalize complex data systems for mission-critical projects.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience designing data warehouses, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for software systems.
  • 5+ years of experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows.
  • 5+ years of experience coding in languages such as SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
  • Experience tuning data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
  • Experience with data management solutions including catalogs, governance policies, and lifecycle management.
  • Top Secret clearance is required.
  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in data systems, or 12+ years of experience without a degree.

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