Senior Data Engineer — On-Site (Huntsville) with TS/SCI

Anavationllc; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous medical insurance

Dental insurance covered

Disability insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

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 team. You will design, develop, and operate data pipelines handling petabyte-scale migrations, ensuring secure, reliable flows aligned with cloud architectures and federal standards.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, and Migration teams, and maintain data dictionaries and mappings while ensuring performance and compliance in an AWS environment.

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 SCI and CI polygraph.
• 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.

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/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Data transformation

Automation

Analytical skills

Documentation

Problem solving

Petabyte-scale migrations

National security experience

CI/CD

Automated testing

Microservices

Cloud-native data services

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Distributed compute

Job description

AnaVation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Huntsville, Alabama team. You will design, develop, and operate data pipelines handling petabyte-scale migrations, ensuring secure, reliable flows aligned with cloud architectures and federal standards.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, and Migration teams, and maintain data dictionaries and mappings while ensuring performance and compliance in an AWS environment.