Data Platforms Software Engineer, Senior
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend services and production data pipelines from design through deployment and production support.
- Design data ingestion, modeling, transformation, storage, validation, and failure-recovery mechanisms for changing operational data sources.
- Define testing strategies across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing based on product behavior and failure impact.
- Build reusable Python testing tools, testing frameworks, representative test data, reproducible environments, and diagnostics.
- Integrate automated checks into CI/CD workflows and document testing patterns and technical decisions for other engineers.
- Report validation results, failures, and quality gaps clearly to engineering teams.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production software.
- 3+ years of experience developing backend software in Python, including services, APIs, or data-processing components.
- 2+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines, including ETL/ELT workflows, data validation, and failure recovery.
- 2+ years of experience building, deploying, or operating software on a cloud platform such as AWS.
- 2+ years of experience owning technical delivery for a service, data pipeline, or product feature.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases, including data modeling, schema design, transformations, and query optimization.
- Experience with Docker or container tools, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows.
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems.
- Preferred experience includes cyber operations or operational data, workflow orchestration, event streaming, distributed data processing, React, TypeScript, AI-enabled or LLM-based applications, and defense, intelligence, national security, or R&D customers.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring work at a Booz Allen or customer facility in accordance with leadership expectations and role needs.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week regularly are eligible for the company’s benefit programs, with limited offerings below that threshold.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).