Data Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton20 days ago
Base Salary
$62k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise data architectures, lakehouse integrations, pipelines, connectors, knowledge indexes, and retrieval services.
- Integrate structured and unstructured data sources and define data contracts, models, schemas, APIs, and access patterns.
- Maintain source permissions, lineage, data quality, freshness, monitoring, and reliability for data and retrieval services.
- Partner with AI engineering on retrieval behavior and response quality, including relevance, latency, scalability, and data quality.
- Translate enterprise requirements into architecture decisions, integration standards, and governance patterns.
- Troubleshoot ingestion and retrieval failures and deliver reusable customer connectors and production data services.
Requirements
- Experience designing or implementing enterprise data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and structured and unstructured data integrations.
- Experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, or vector databases.
- Experience developing, testing, and operating ETL or ELT pipelines using SQL and Python.
- Experience defining data models, schemas, data contracts, APIs, and downstream application access patterns.
- Experience with data governance, source permissions, lineage, quality controls, and freshness and availability monitoring.
- Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector indexes, and semantic or hybrid search.
- Ability to assess relevance, latency, scalability, and data quality and translate requirements into architecture and governance decisions.
- Experience with permission-aware retrieval, metadata enrichment, incremental ingestion, knowledge engineering, reusable customer connectors, or production AI data services is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- U.S. citizenship required; applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination and meet applicable U.S. government client eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care benefits are available.
- Recognition awards acknowledge exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees regularly working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with limited offerings below that threshold.
- The role may require in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility when designated remote, hybrid, or onsite, and virtual employees are generally expected to use cameras during meetings.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
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).