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: 57 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Nov 29, 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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The Data Engineer, Senior joins 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 while deploying pipelines that organize disparate data into meaningful insights. Your daily work involves automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows, performing tuning on data lake architecture, and managing data catalogs and governance policies. You will utilize SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java to develop systems. The role requires expertise in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB. You will solve complex problems in domains such as fraud detection, cancer research, and national intelligence, ensuring data security and performance across various cloud and distributed computing environments.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $159000 from 203 postings across 58 companies.

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Skills

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

What you'll do

Deploy and develop data pipelines and platforms to organize disparate data sources.
Build and maintain scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines for batch and streaming workflows.
Manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable data platforms.
Perform tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
Implement data management solutions for data catalogs, governance policies, and lifecycle management.
Develop and operationalize data systems using SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
Automate continuous deployment pipelines and large-scale data workflows.

What we're looking for

Top Secret clearance.
Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems.
10+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems in lieu of a degree.
8+ years of experience designing data warehouse or data lake, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for software systems.
5+ years of experience building scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows, and parsing data.
5+ years of experience coding in software programming languages, including SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java.
Experience performing tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance.
Experience with data management solutions addressing data catalog, usage, governance policies, and lifecycle management.

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