Data Engineer, Senior
boozallenHuntsville, ALPosted 9 March 2026
Job Description
Data Engineer, Senior
The Opportunity:
Ever-expanding technology like IoT, machine learning, and artifi cia l intelligence means that there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data engineer like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions from fraud detection to cancer research, to national intelligence.
As a Data Engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.
Here, you’ll work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examination while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
5 years of experience designing data warehouse or data lake, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for sof tware systems
5 years of experience building scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows, and parsing structured, unstructured, or event-streaming data
5 years of experience with coding in sof tware 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 that address aspects of data catalog, data usage, governance policies , and lifecycle management
Top Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems, or 12 years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems in lieu of degree
Nice If You Have:
3 years of experience architecting and designing large-scale enterprise data and analytics systems
3 years of experience using and developing data systems with AWS and Micro sof t Azure cloud data products such as AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Azure Dataverse, Azure Data Factory, and Power Apps
Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, AirFlow, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
Experience with federal information system policies , including NIST 800.53 and FISMA, data security, access controls, and data protection techniques
Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks, and automating CD / CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins or GitHub
Experience with NoSQL database such as Elasticsearch, Solr, MongoDB, or Cosmo DB
Experience with AI or ML pipelines and processes
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Master’s degree
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information ; Top Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health be ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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