Data Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Paid leave & holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Job summary

AnaVation in Huntsville, Alabama is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale data pipelines supporting petabyte-scale migration to cloud environments. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and adherence to architectural standards for transitioning legacy datasets into modern cloud storage.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams, and ensure data workflows meet security and auditing requirements during

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or large-scale data operations.
• Hands-on experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data across enterprise environments.
• Strong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), DevSecOps tooling, and scripting languages.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.
• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for SCI and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
• Experience with data migration to cloud environments and security compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and migration of large, multi-source datasets.
• Develop data models, schemas, mappings, and integration structures supporting legacy-to-cloud migration.
• Improve pipeline automation, performance, throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, validation, and root-cause analysis for data quality issues.
• Partner with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams to integrate and validate data workflows.
• Support AWS-based data engineering and ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and data-handling requirements.
• Mentor data engineers and participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, architecture discussions, and migration planning.
• Maintain pipeline diagrams, mapping specifications, data dictionaries, and other technical documentation.
• Track migration progress, pipeline performance, data quality, risks, and blockers, and support timely resolution.

Skills

ETL development

Data engineering

AWS

Data modeling

Automation

Documentation

Scripting languages

Cloud migrations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Be Challenged and Make a Difference

In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama work program. The selectedcandidate provides support large scale data engineering and migration activities for a major federal modernizationprogram. This role is responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and operating data pipelines supporting petabytescale migration, transformation, and storage of structured and unstructured datasets. The Senior Data Engineer ensuresdata flows are reliable, repeatable, secure, and aligned to architectural standards required for transferring legacy datasetsinto modern cloud environments.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and migration of large, multi-source datasets.


• Develop data models, schemas, mappings, and integration structures supporting legacy-to-cloud migration.


• Improve pipeline automation, performance, throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance.


• Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, validation, and root-cause analysis for data quality issues.


• Partner with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams to integrate and validate data workflows.


• Support AWS-based data engineering and ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and data-handlingrequirements.


• Mentor data engineers and participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, architecture discussions, and migrationplanning.


• Maintain pipeline diagrams, mapping specifications, data dictionaries, and other technical documentation.


• Track migration progress, pipeline performance, data quality, risks, and blockers, and support timely resolution.

This position requires active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI accesses with a CI polygraph.

This position is on-site with our customer in Huntsville, Alabama, and cannot be supported remotely.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or large scale dataoperations.


• Hands on experience building pipelines for structured/unstructured data across enterprise environments.


• Strong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.


• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), DevSecOps tooling, and scripting languages.


• Excellent analytical, documentation, and problem solving skills.


• Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.


• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and theability to obtain a CI polygraph

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with petabyte scale or multi system migration programs.


• Background supporting national security customers.


• Experience with CI/CD integration, automated testing pipelines, or micro service architectures.


• Advanced knowledge of ETL frameworks, distributed compute tools, or cloud native data services.

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents


• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents


• 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance


• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents


• 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting


• Competitive Pay


• Generous paid leave and holiday package


• Tuition and training reimbursement


• Life and AD&D Insurance

About AnaVation

AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.

If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!

AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.