Data Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton27 days ago
Base Salary
$62k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design data architectures and implement pipelines, connectors, knowledge indexes, and retrieval services for structured and unstructured enterprise data.
- Define data contracts, models, schemas, APIs, integration standards, governance patterns, and access patterns for downstream applications.
- Maintain permissions, lineage, data quality, freshness, scalability, availability, and reliability of data and retrieval services.
- Partner with source-system owners, engineering teams, and AI engineering on data integration, retrieval behavior, and response quality.
- Troubleshoot ingestion and retrieval failures and assess relevance, latency, scalability, and data quality.
- Deliver reusable customer connectors and data services for production AI applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 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 access patterns for downstream applications.
- 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 decisions, integration standards, and governance patterns.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of the work.
- Experience with permission-aware retrieval, metadata enrichment, incremental ingestion, or knowledge engineering is preferred.
- Experience delivering reusable customer connectors and data services for production AI applications is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in McLean, Virginia, with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and access to Booz Allen benefit programs for eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
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).