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

AnaVation, LLC; 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

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