Senior Data Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
Huntsville, AL
Salary
$77,500–$176,000 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

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 build advanced technology solutions and manage the assessment, design, construction, and maintenance of scalable platforms. You will develop pipelines and platforms that organize disparate data into meaningful insights for mission-driven projects involving fraud detection, cancer research, and national intelligence. Your daily work involves building scalable ETL or ELT pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming workflows, and performing tuning on data lake architectures to optimize cloud storage performance. The role requires proficiency in SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java, alongside experience with tools like AWS EMR, Glue, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow, and NiFi. You will also manage data governance, lifecycle management, and security protocols for complex information systems.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $183138 from 214 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable data warehouse and data lake architectures.
  • Develop and deploy automated ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming data workflows.
  • Parse and organize structured, unstructured, and event-streaming data from disparate sources.
  • Perform tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
  • Manage data governance policies including cataloging, usage tracking, and lifecycle management.
  • Develop advanced technology solutions for mission-critical projects like fraud detection and research.
  • Implement automated CI/CD pipelines across multiple technical stacks.

What we're looking for

  • Top Secret clearance is required.
  • A Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience in data systems are required, or 10 years of experience without a degree.
  • 8+ years of experience designing data warehouses, data lakes, 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 including SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
  • Experience tuning data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
  • Experience with data management solutions covering catalogs, usage, governance policies, and lifecycle management.
  • Experience with distributed computing tools like Spark, NiFi, AirFlow, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.

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