Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Migration & Pipelines

Njoyn; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive insurance options

401(k) matching and employee share buy

Paid time off for vacation, holidays,

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Wellness programs

Job summary

CGI Federal in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and operate petabyte-scale data pipelines for a major federal modernization program. You will ensure secure, reliable data flows from legacy systems to cloud environments, collaborating with Cloud, DevSecOps, and migration teams.

The role requires a TS clearance, US citizenship, and 8+ years of data engineering experience, with strong ETL, data modeling, and automation capabilities, preferably in AWS.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance required.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Hands-on experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Strong data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• DevSecOps tooling and scripting proficiency.
• Analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines enabling ingestion, transformation, and loading of large datasets.
• Implement ETL/ELT processes supporting multi source, multi format data migration.
• Develop data models, schemas, mapping artifacts, and integration structures for legacy to cloud migration.
• Enhance automation, performance tuning, throughput, and fault tolerance within cloud based pipelines.
• Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, and validation efforts across legacy sources.
• Perform root cause analysis on data anomalies and guide corrective actions.
• Coordinate with QA/Test Engineers to embed data validation and automated testing into pipeline workflows.
• Support data engineering activities within AWS cloud environments (preferred).
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, DevSecOps teams, Migration Engineers, and system developers to integrate data flows with program architecture.
• Ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and handling requirements across environments.
• Mentor Data Migration Engineers and Mid Level Data Engineers on pipeline operations and data best practices.
• Participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, and architecture discussions.
• Support migration readiness assessments, backlog refinement, and multi team planning.

Skills

ETL/ELT development

Data modeling

Cloud data pipelines

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

DevSecOps tooling

Scripting languages

Job description

CGI Federal in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and operate petabyte-scale data pipelines for a major federal modernization program. You will ensure secure, reliable data flows from legacy systems to cloud environments, collaborating with Cloud, DevSecOps, and migration teams.

The role requires a TS clearance, US citizenship, and 8+ years of data engineering experience, with strong ETL, data modeling, and automation capabilities, preferably in AWS.