Data Engineer and Technical Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton13 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the assessment, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of scalable data platforms and pipelines.
- Guide data engineering activities for mission-driven client projects involving disparate structured and unstructured data.
- Supervise engineers and lead projects and Agile delivery in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
- Mentor analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers.
- Develop and optimize Python, SQL, and PySpark solutions for large datasets.
- Implement Delta Lake, bronze/silver/gold medallion Lakehouse designs, Databricks workflows and jobs, Asset Bundles, and YAML-defined deployments.
- Design and govern Unity Catalog catalogs, schemas, grants, lineage, and supporting operational, audit, configuration, and reference data.
- Apply software engineering practices to data pipelines, including Git, automated testing, CI/CD for Databricks assets, and dimensional data modeling.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with a data focus.
- 7+ years of experience using Python and SQL, including demonstrated PySpark performance tuning on large datasets.
- 3+ years of production experience with Delta Lake and bronze, silver, and gold medallion Lakehouse design.
- 3+ years of experience with Databricks Workflows and Jobs, Asset Bundles, and YAML-defined deployments.
- 3+ years of experience with Unity Catalog information architecture and governance.
- 3+ years of experience with software engineering applied to data, automated pipeline tests, Databricks asset delivery, and dimensional data modeling.
- Experience supervising engineers and leading projects and Agile delivery.
- Knowledge of AWS services used by Databricks, including S3, IAM roles, and Secrets Manager.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination.
- Preferred: 5+ years developing, maintaining, and enhancing Tableau or other BI dashboards.
- Preferred: experience migrating SSIS, Informatica, stored procedures, and on-premises warehouses into governed Delta Lake data products.
- Preferred: experience with Delta Live Tables, Structured Streaming, Great Expectations, dbt tests, Databricks expectations, and Databricks Genie.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and business audiences are preferred.
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, with select offerings for others.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring work from a Booz Allen or customer facility in alignment with leadership expectations and role needs.
- Applicants may be subject to a government investigation and U.S. government eligibility requirements.
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).