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Booz Allen

Builds AI and cyber systems for the US government

Data Engineer, Mid

Data EngineeringPosted on Nov 12
Full-time$62k - $141k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience in data engineering, database development, or data-platform work supporting software or test environments, including Python, SQL, data transformation, complex queries, Git source control, automated testing, and peer review.
  • Experience deploying, configuring, securing, monitoring, tuning, backing up, and troubleshooting locally hosted relational or NoSQL databases, including schema and data modeling, indexing, query optimization, data integrity, and controlled access.
  • Experience building and operating scheduled batch or near-real-time ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest data from files, APIs, applications, and databases, with validation, relevance-based filtering, logging, alerts, automated retries, and failure recovery.
  • Experience managing data retention and reuse through test-event and source metadata, dataset provenance, software-version traceability, relevance-based curation, automated backups, and recovery testing.
  • Ability to translate developer, tester, and stakeholder needs into supportable data solutions.
  • Secret clearance is required.
  • High school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement dependable data storage and processing capabilities to replace manual file transfers and fragmented local copies with secure, organized, searchable repositories.
  • Ensure datasets remain discoverable, accurate, and useful as deployed software systems and configurations evolve.
  • Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, test personnel, and AI/ML practitioners to automate data ingestion, quality validation, relevance-based curation, indexing, version tracking, backup, and recovery.
  • Preserve source provenance and test-event and software-version context so trusted datasets can support performance analysis, government reporting, partner-facing metrics, and model training.
  • Build a foundation for future automated dashboards and controlled data access by authorized stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting U.S. Army or other DoD software development, testing, evaluation, or sustainment programs, particularly with test-event datasets, telemetry, application logs, system performance metrics, or technical reporting.
  • Experience with Redis architectures, including data structures, indexing, and persistence, and complementary technologies such as PostgreSQL, object storage, or on-premises data platforms for durable, high-performance retrieval.
  • Experience preparing reproducible AI/ML training, evaluation, or inference datasets through profiling, labeling, normalization, deduplication, feature preparation, and version tracking.
  • Experience supporting Agile or Scrum software teams with CI/CD and repeatable deployments, including workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect and planning or release tools such as GitLab, Azure DevOps, or Jira.
  • Experience implementing data catalogs, metadata management, data lineage, schema-evolution controls, or dataset versioning using methods and tools such as DVC, lakeFS, data contracts, or comparable governance practices.
  • Experience building automated performance dashboards and traceable reports with Power BI, Grafana, Tableau, or Python visualization tools, including drill-down links or references to source datasets.
  • Experience working in Linux-based, on-premises, restricted, or disconnected environments using Docker or other containers, secure networking, role-based access, audit logging, or controlled remote or API access.
  • Experience with event-driven or distributed data processing such as Kafka or Spark.

About the Company

Booz Allen

Builds AI and cyber systems for the US government

Booz Allen builds and runs technology for the U.S. government, mostly for the military and intelligence agencies, and its engineers work alongside consultants who know each agency's mission. In 1958, it helped the U.S. Navy create PERT, a project-scheduling method first used on the Polaris submarine missile program and later adopted across government and industry. Its teams design cyber defenses, AI and data tools, and battlefield communications, and it sells its own products, such as Vellox, a suite of AI tools that spot and fight off hackers. Agencies pay mainly through multi-year contracts that reimburse costs, bill hours, or set a fixed price. Booz Allen was founded in 1914 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1914

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