Senior Data Engineer – On-Site Huntsville, TS/SCI Eligible

AnaVation, LLC; Huntsville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous medical insurance

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Vision insurance

401k with match

Competitive pay

Paid leave and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Life and AD&D Insurance

Job summary

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Huntsville, Alabama work program. This role designs, builds, and operates data pipelines for large-scale migration, transformation, and storage across cloud environments, emphasizing reliability and security.

You will mentor other engineers, collaborate with QA, Cloud, and DevSecOps teams, and ensure compliance with data-handling requirements while working on-site with our customer.

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/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 the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.

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 modeling

Scripting languages

Cloud environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Job description

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Huntsville, Alabama work program. This role designs, builds, and operates data pipelines for large-scale migration, transformation, and storage across cloud environments, emphasizing reliability and security.

You will mentor other engineers, collaborate with QA, Cloud, and DevSecOps teams, and ensure compliance with data-handling requirements while working on-site with our customer.