Data Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; Bedford (MA); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Data Engineer to design and deploy data pipelines and AI-enabled analytics for mission-driven projects. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to organize structured and unstructured data from diverse sources, delivering scalable platforms and insights to support national security, fraud detection, and health research.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, analysts, and clients, with opportunities to guide architecture decisions and advance secure

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience architecting and delivering AI-enabled mission or enterprise systems.
• 2+ years of experience designing data pipelines and application workflows on platforms like Palantir Foundry or Gotham.
• 2+ years of experience developing secure analytics ecosystems and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines and platforms to organize disparate data.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, and data consumers in an agile environment.
• Communicate architectural decisions and impacts to government clients and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data pipelines

AI/ML integration

Secure environments

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Gotham

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, 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:

• 2+ years of experience architecting and delivering AI enabled mission or enterprise systems, including data integration, secure compute environments, and operator facing applications in restricted or classified settings
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing data pipelines, ontologies, and application workflows on platforms such as Palantir Foundry or Gotham, including airgapped, degraded connectivity, or multiclassification environments
• 2+ years of experience developing secure analytics ecosystems, including log pipelines, monitoring frameworks, operational dashboards, or intelligence fusion platforms in greenfield or modernization efforts
• Experience rapidly learning unfamiliar technologies, and supporting engineering teams through implementation
• Experience communicating architectural decisions and solution impacts to engineers, government clients, and senior nontechnical stakeholders
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• 3+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and automated testing within constrained or limited toolchain environments
• 3+ years of experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production workflows or operator tooling, such as LLM enabled assistants, model augmented decision aids, or automation solutions
• 3+ years of experience making architectural tradeoffs under constrained mission conditions, including limited infrastructure, fragmented networks, evolving requirements, or high-pressure timelines
• Experience supporting multi cloud, multi enclave, or multiclassification architectures, including environments spanning NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, or coalition networks
• Experience contributing to defense programs or large systems integration efforts involving acquisition, compliance, or organizational complexity
• Experience supporting DoD installations, operational units, or C2 systems in environments with incomplete documentation or inconsistent technical baselines
• Experience developing agentic workflows, automation pipelines, or custom tooling to increase engineering throughput or reduce operator workload
• Experience participating in tiger teams, flyaway teams, or rapid response missions requiring accelerated delivery under complex conditions and serving in a technical lead capacity responsible for system design and delivery
• Top Secret clearance
• Architecture frameworks Certification such as AWS, Palantir Foundry, Gotham, or Kubernetes
• Certification 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 $61,900.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD).

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

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 facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or 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.

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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