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Data Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton

Huntsville, ALFull-time$78–176K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$78–176K/yr
Location
Huntsville, AL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance, required

Job overview

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a senior data engineer to build and deploy pipelines and platforms that make disparate data meaningful for mission-driven client projects. The role involves assessing, designing, building, and maintaining scalable platforms, while working with and guiding a multidisciplinary team. Projects may support missions ranging from fraud detection and cancer research to national intelligence.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data Warehouse Design, requiredRESTful API Modeling, requiredEvent Processing, requiredBusiness Intelligence, requiredETL/ELT Pipelines, requiredBatch and Streaming Workflows, requiredData Parsing, requiredSQL, requiredPython, requiredScala, requiredSpark, requiredJava, requiredData Lake Optimization, requiredData Management, requiredData Cataloging, requiredData Governance, requiredLifecycle Management, requiredEnterprise Data Architecture, nice to haveAnalytics Systems Design, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveMicrosoft Azure, nice to haveAWS EMR, nice to haveAWS Glue, nice to haveAzure Dataverse, nice to haveAzure Data Factory, nice to havePower Apps, nice to haveApache Spark, nice to haveApache NiFi, nice to haveAirflow, nice to haveDatabricks, nice to haveSnowflake, nice to haveRedshift, nice to haveBigQuery, nice to haveNIST 800.53, nice to haveFISMA, nice to haveData Security, nice to haveAccess Controls, nice to haveData Protection, nice to haveAutomation, nice to haveCI/CD Pipelines, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years Data Systems Experience, required5+ Years Data Pipeline Experience, required5+ Years Programming Experience, requiredSecret Clearance, requiredBachelor's and 8+ Years or 12+ Years, required3+ Years Enterprise Data Experience, nice to have3+ Years AWS and Azure Experience, nice to haveTS/SCI Clearance With Polygraph, nice to haveMaster's Degree, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Data Engineer, SeniorThe Opportunity: Ever-expanding technology like IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means that there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data engineer like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions from fraud detection to cancer research, to national intelligence.

As a Data Engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.

Here, you’ll work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examination while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience designing data warehouse or data lake, RESTful API models, event processing, or business intelligence for software systems
  • 5+ years of experience building scalable ETL or ELT data pipelines, automating large-scale batch and streaming data workflows, and parsing structured, unstructured, or event-streaming data
  • 5+ years of experience with coding in software programming languages, including SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, or Java
  • Experience performing tuning on data lake architecture to optimize cloud storage and pipeline performance
  • Experience with data management solutions that address aspects of data catalog, data usage, governance policies, and lifecycle management
  • Secret clearance
  • Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems, or 12+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining data systems in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

  • 3+ years of experience architecting and designing large-scale enterprise data and analytics systems
  • 3+ years of experience using and developing data systems with AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud data products such as AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Azure Dataverse, Azure Data Factory, and Power Apps
  • Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, AirFlow, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
  • Experience with federal information system policies, including NIST 800.53 and FISMA, data security, access controls, and data protection techniques
  • Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks, and automating CD/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins or GitHub
  • Experience with NoSQL database such as Elasticsearch, Solr, MongoDB, or Cosmo DB
  • Experience with AI or ML pipelines and processes
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
  • Master’s degree

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,500.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

  • Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
  • Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
  • Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

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How this job compares

Set against the 6,255 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$78–176K/yr
  • Alabama median$99–186K/yr51 salary ranges
  • US median$125–208K/yr4,857 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $127K, is 11% below the Alabama median midpoint ($142K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in Alabama.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 73 open Data Engineer jobs in Alabama and 6,255 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Alabama
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,438 postings).
Education
2,380 of the 6,255 open Data Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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