Data Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton13 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement secure data integration across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Build and operate batch and streaming data pipelines and trusted data products for analysts, applications, and AI capabilities.
- Develop critical components, review code, diagnose production issues, and troubleshoot performance.
- Design governed data architectures with metadata, lineage, data quality, and access controls.
- Make architectural decisions involving scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
- Lead hands-on engineering delivery, establish reusable engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.
- Collaborate with mission owners, platform teams, data scientists, and cybersecurity professionals.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, 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.
- 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, or disconnected operational environments.
- TS/SCI clearance is preferred.
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.
- 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 but not health benefits.
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).