Data Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton27 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design enterprise data architectures and build pipelines, knowledge indexes, connectors, and retrieval services for structured and unstructured data.
- Define data contracts, data models, schemas, APIs, access patterns, integration standards, and governance patterns.
- Operate and troubleshoot ETL/ELT pipelines and retrieval services while monitoring permissions, lineage, quality, freshness, latency, scalability, and availability.
- Partner with source-system owners, engineering teams, and AI engineering on integrations, retrieval behavior, and response quality.
- Deliver reusable customer connectors and data services for production AI applications.
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 translate enterprise requirements into architecture and governance decisions and troubleshoot ingestion and retrieval failures.
- Bachelor's degree and ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination.
- U.S. citizenship is required, and selected applicants may need to meet U.S. government client vetting requirements.
- Preferred experience includes permission-aware retrieval, metadata enrichment, incremental ingestion, knowledge engineering, reusable customer connectors, and production AI data services.
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.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings for others.
- Hybrid work in McLean, Virginia, with expected work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
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).