Data Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives across mission-driven projects, from fraud detection to health research. You’ll design and deploy pipelines, mentor a multidisciplinary team, and oversee scalable data platforms that turn disparate sources into actionable insights.

This role demands 10+ years of experience across AI-enabled systems, secure analytics, and DevSecOps, with a secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting AI-enabled mission or enterprise systems, including data integration, secure compute environments, and operator facing applications in restricted or classified settings.
• 10+ years designing and deploying data pipelines, ontologies, and application workflows on platforms such as Palantir Foundry or Gotham, including air gapped, degraded connectivity, or multiclassification environments.
• 10+ years of experience developing secure analytics ecosystems, including log pipelines, monitoring frameworks, operational dashboards, or intelligence fusion platforms in greenfield or legacy modernization efforts.
• 10+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and automated testing within constrained or limited toolchain environments.
• 10+ 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.
• 10+ years of experience making architectural tradeoffs under constrained mission conditions, including limited infrastructure, fragmented networks, evolving requirements, or high-pressure operational timelines.
• Experience rapidly learning unfamiliar technologies, developing hands on proficiency, and guiding engineering teams through full lifecycle implementation.
• Experience communicating architectural decisions and solution impacts to engineering teams, government clients, and senior nontechnical stakeholders.
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development and deployment of data pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.
• Mentor a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Oversee assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable data platforms for clients.
• Guide data engineering activities and ensure secure compute environments and operator-facing applications.
• Collaborate with government clients and senior stakeholders to communicate architectural decisions and impact.

Skills

AI/ML integration

Data pipelines design

DevSecOps

Secure analytics ecosystems

Architectural tradeoffs

Stakeholder communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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 professional 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 use your expertise to help build advanced technology solutions and lead data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll guide data engineering activities by overseeing the development and deployment of pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.

Here, you’ll mentor a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your expertise in analytical exploration and data examination while you oversee 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:

• 10+ 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

• 10+ years of experience designing and deploying data pipelines, ontologies, and application workflows on platforms such as Palantir Foundry or Gotham, including air gapped, degraded connectivity, or multiclassification environments

• 10+ years of experience developing secure analytics ecosystems, including log pipelines, monitoring frameworks, operational dashboards, or intelligence fusion platforms in greenfield or legacy modernization efforts

• 10+ years of experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and automated testing within constrained or limited toolchain environments

• 10+ 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

• 10+ years of experience making architectural tradeoffs under constrained mission conditions, including limited infrastructure, fragmented networks, evolving requirements, or high-pressure operational timelines

• Experience rapidly learning unfamiliar technologies, developing hands on proficiency, and guiding engineering teams through full lifecycle implementation

• Experience communicating architectural decisions and solution impacts to engineering teams, government clients, and senior nontechnical stakeholders

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience supporting multi cloud, multi enclave, or multiclassification architectures, including environments spanning NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, or coalition networks

• Experience contributing to major defense programs or largescale systems integration efforts, including navigating acquisition, compliance, or bureaucratic constraints

• Experience supporting DoD installations, operational units, or C2 systems in environments with incomplete documentation, degraded systems, or inconsistent technical baselines

• Experience developing agentic workflows, automation pipelines, or custom tooling that improved engineering velocity or reduced operator burden

• Experience serving as a senior technical lead or architect responsible for end-to-end solution delivery

• Experience working on tiger teams, flyaway teams, or rapid response engineering missions requiring accelerated delivery under complex conditions

• Top Secret clearance

• Architecture frameworksCertifications such as AWS, Palantir Foundry or 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 $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (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, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• 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.