Data Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton12 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement secure enterprise data infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Build and operate batch and streaming data pipelines integrating authoritative sources.
- Develop data transformations and distributed processing components using Python and SQL.
- Design governed data architectures with metadata, lineage, data quality, access controls, and enterprise discovery capabilities.
- Deliver trusted data products supporting analysts, applications, analytics, and AI missions.
- Review code, diagnose production issues, and make engineering decisions concerning scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
- Lead hands-on technical delivery, establish reusable engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.
- Collaborate with mission owners, platform teams, data scientists, and cybersecurity professionals.
Requirements
- 7+ years of data engineering experience, including technical ownership of production enterprise data infrastructure supporting DoW/DoD missions.
- Experience architecting and implementing secure data integration across cloud and on-premises environments, including batch and streaming pipelines.
- Experience using Python and SQL for complex data transformations, distributed processing, and production performance troubleshooting.
- Experience designing governed data architectures with metadata, lineage, data quality, and access controls.
- Experience leading hands-on engineering delivery and making architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
- Secret clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a technology field.
- Preferred experience includes data fabric capabilities, federated queries, semantic layers, domain-oriented data products, feature stores, vector databases, RAG, model-training pipelines, classified environments, approved cross-domain transfers, and disconnected operational environments.
- TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available through Booz Allen’s benefits programs.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for the applicable benefits programs.
- The position is not remote and is located in Arlington, Virginia; onsite work is primarily performed at a customer facility.
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).