
Tools Engineer
Sterling, VAFull-time$133–226K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
BAE Systems seeks a Tools Engineer to design, build, and maintain tools, platforms, and pipelines for data integration, processing, storage, and analytics in a cloud-based enterprise lab. The role supports data analysis and emerging customer capabilities across multiple classification levels, working with the customer to validate requirements. The posting requires a bachelor’s degree and six years of work experience or equivalent experience; cybersecurity, cyber operations, computer science, or software engineering backgrounds are preferred.
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Job Description
BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of War, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of War, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.
We are looking for Tools Engineer with data processing skills and Intel Community experience who wants to grow and develop by initiating analysis on a unique client data set. The program delivers a new Enterprise lab environment in a cloud-based environment across multiple classification levels. The Data Analyst will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the tools, platforms, and pipelines that enable data integration, processing, storage, and analytics in an enterprise lab environment. The lab supports new and emerging paradigms to support and enhance customer capabilities and tradecraft. The enterprise lab environment will encompass multi-intelligence data infusion to enable innovative tradecraft development modeling and simulation to provide solutions for customer problems and needs.
As the Tools Engineer you will:
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Design and automate data pipelines.
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Utilize structured and unstructured data to deliver analytic workloads
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Support data processing and analytics platforms utilizing big data frameworks and cloud data services
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Support a DevOps environment utilizing infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines for data tool deployment
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Be responsible for monitoring data quality, lineage, and governance
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Working with the customer to understand and validate requirements.
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Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor's Degree and 6 years work experience or equivalent experience
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Ability to script complex queries to perform data analysis
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Ability to apply data organization skills
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Excellent organizational and follow through skills.
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Strong communication (written and verbal) skills.
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Detail oriented with problem-solving skills.
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Proficient in Microsoft Office
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- Cybersecurity, cyber operations, computer science, or software engineering background
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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How this job compares
Set against the 6,389 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$133–226K/yr
- Virginia median$118–194K/yr365 salary ranges
- US median$125–208K/yr4,942 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is 15% above the Virginia median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 467 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 6,389 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Deloitte98 open
- Capital One41 open
- Accenture25 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (5,569 postings).
- Education
- 2,510 of the 6,389 open Data Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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