
Data Engineer
Virginia Beach, VAJob$78–176K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Booz Allen is seeking an experienced data engineer to organize disparate data and develop pipelines and workflows for mission-driven client projects. The role involves managing the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of analytic solutions while working with and guiding a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have experience with programming and querying languages, data applications, data processing, and ETL or ELT workflows. A high school diploma or GED is required; a Secret clearance must be obtainable.
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Full job description
Data Engineer
The 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.
As a data engineer at Booz Allen, you'll implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You'll deploy and develop pipelines and workflows 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 analytic solutions for your clients.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:
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Experience utilizing programming and querying languages, including Python, R, Scala, or SQL
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Experience developing and maintaining data applications for reporting and analytics
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Experience creating software for retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data
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Experience building scalable ETL or ELT workflows for reporting and analytics
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Experience creating solutions within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
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Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
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HS diploma or GED
Nice If You Have:
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Experience with Maven Smart Systems tools such as Foundry
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Experience with data visualization or geospatial tools such as Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, or ArcGIS
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Experience with a public cloud, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
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Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, AWS EMR, or Kafka
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Experience working within a Combatant Command or other DoD organization
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Experience with Agile engineering practices
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CompTIA Security+ Certification
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 5,645 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$78–176K/yr
- Virginia median$120–190K/yr323 salary ranges
- US median$125–208K/yr4,330 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 18% below the Virginia median midpoint ($155K) — in the lowest quarter of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 401 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 5,645 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Deloitte81 open
- Capital One34 open
- Accenture25 open
- Experience
- Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (4,892 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,334 of the 5,645 open Data Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 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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