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Data Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

Huntsville, ALFull-time$78–176K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$78–176K/yr
Location
Huntsville, AL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Citizenship required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance, required

Job overview

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks an experienced data engineer to build and maintain data 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 in an agile environment. Projects may support missions ranging from fraud detection to cancer research and national intelligence.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Application Development, requiredEnterprise Data Applications, requiredData Retrieval, requiredData Parsing, requiredData Processing, requiredETL and ELT Workflows, requiredData Conversion, requiredData Platform Operations, requiredCross-Functional Collaboration, requiredMaven Smart System, nice to havePalantir Foundry, nice to havePython, nice to haveSQL, nice to haveScala, nice to haveJava, nice to haveUNIX, nice to haveLinux, nice to haveShell Scripting, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveMicrosoft Azure, nice to haveGoogle Cloud, nice to haveSpark, nice to haveDatabricks, nice to haveHadoop, nice to haveHive, nice to haveAWS EMR, nice to haveKafka, nice to haveReal-Time Data Applications, nice to haveStreaming Applications, nice to haveNoSQL, nice to haveMongoDB, nice to haveCassandra, nice to haveData Warehousing, nice to haveAWS Redshift, nice to haveMySQL, nice to haveSnowflake, nice to haveAgile Engineering, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years Application Development, required5+ Years Enterprise Data Applications, required3+ Years Data Retrieval and Processing, required3+ Years ETL and ELT Workflows, requiredTS/SCI Clearance, requiredBachelor's and 5+ Years Data Engineering or 7+ Years Data Engineering, requiredTS/SCI Clearance With Polygraph, nice to have

Benefits

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

Full job description

Data EngineerThe 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.

Work with us to use data for good.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience in application development
  • 5+ years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining complex data applications at enterprise scale
  • 3+ years of experience creating software for retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data
  • 3+ years of experience building scalable ETL and ELT workflows for reporting and analytics
  • Experience creating solutions within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
  • Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats, and support project team to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms
  • TS/SCI clearance
  • Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in data engineering, or 7+ years of experience in data engineering in lieu of degree

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience with Maven Smart System or the Palantir Foundry Ecosystem
  • Experience with Python, SQL, Scala, or Java
  • Experience with UNIX and Linux, including basic commands and Shell scripting
  • Experience with a public cloud, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Experience with distributed data and computing tools, including Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, AWS EMR, or Kafka
  • Experience working on real-time data and streaming applications
  • Experience with NoSQL implementation, including MongoDB or Cassandra
  • Experience with data warehousing using AWS Redshift, MySQL, or Snowflake
  • Experience with Agile engineering practices
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph

Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 6,475 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$78–176K/yr
  • Alabama median$96–180K/yr59 salary ranges
  • US median$116–202K/yr5,246 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 81 open Data Engineer jobs in Alabama and 6,475 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 5 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (5,709 postings).
Education
2,489 of the 6,475 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 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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