Data Engineer, Mid
Booz Allen Hamilton4 days ago
Fort Belvoir, VA, USA or Washington, DC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$62k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, organized, searchable data storage and processing capabilities for system test-event data.
- Build and operate scheduled batch or near-real-time ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from files, APIs, applications, and databases.
- Implement data validation, relevance-based curation, logging, alerts, automated retries, failure recovery, and data-quality controls.
- Deploy, configure, secure, monitor, tune, back up, and troubleshoot locally hosted relational or NoSQL databases.
- Manage data retention, metadata, dataset provenance, software-version traceability, indexing, schema and data modeling, and controlled access.
- Collaborate with developers, systems engineers, test personnel, AI/ML practitioners, and stakeholders to deliver supportable data solutions.
- Prepare trusted datasets for performance analysis, government reporting, partner-facing metrics, and model training.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in data engineering, database development, or data-platform work supporting software or test environments.
- Experience with Python, SQL, data transformation, complex queries, Git, automated testing, and peer review.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL database deployment, configuration, security, monitoring, tuning, backup, recovery, indexing, query optimization, data integrity, and controlled access.
- Experience operating ETL/ELT pipelines with validation, filtering, logging, alerting, retries, and failure recovery.
- Experience managing test-event and source metadata, dataset provenance, software-version traceability, curation, backups, and recovery testing.
- Ability to translate developer, tester, and stakeholder needs into supportable data solutions.
- Secret clearance is required, and applicants may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- HS diploma or GED is required.
- Preferred experience includes U.S. Army or DoD software programs, Redis and PostgreSQL, AI/ML dataset preparation, Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jira, DVC, lakeFS, Power BI, Grafana, Tableau, Docker, Kafka, and Spark.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings excluding health benefits.
- Work-model expectations vary by listing: remote roles may occasionally require work at a Booz Allen or customer facility, hybrid roles require facility work according to leadership and role needs, and onsite roles are primarily performed at a customer facility.
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).