Data Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton20 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design enterprise data architectures and implement pipelines, connectors, knowledge indexes, and retrieval services for AI applications.
- Integrate structured and unstructured data sources and define data contracts, models, schemas, APIs, and access patterns.
- Maintain permissions, lineage, data quality, freshness, monitoring, reliability, and availability for data and retrieval services.
- Partner with AI engineering on application retrieval behavior and response quality.
- Troubleshoot ingestion and retrieval failures and assess relevance, latency, scalability, and data quality.
- Translate enterprise requirements into architecture decisions, integration standards, and governance patterns.
- 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 troubleshoot ingestion and retrieval failures and assess relevance, latency, scalability, and data quality.
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Experience with permission-aware retrieval, metadata enrichment, incremental ingestion, or knowledge engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care are available.
- Recognition awards acknowledge 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.
- Applicants may be required to work at a Booz Allen or customer facility depending on whether the position is remote, hybrid, or onsite.
- The role requires U.S. citizenship and may require a government investigation and eligibility determination.
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).