Senior Data Migration Engineer — Onsite Federal Project

Piper Companies; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/Holidays

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Migration Engineer to support a high-profile FBI data migration in Huntsville, AL. The role focuses on architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines.

You will design scalable ETL/ELT processes, integrate with cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, compliant, and timely data delivery. This long-term contract offers full benefits and on-site work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of data engineering, ETL, and large-scale migrations.
• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Experience with ETL tools, automation frameworks (Python, Powershell, Bash), and high volume data pipelines.
• Experience operating ETL pipelines within AWS or other cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to support large-scale data migration initiatives.
• Build and optimize extraction, transformation, and loading processes for structured and unstructured data sources.
• Develop automated workflows that maximize performance, reliability, scalability, and error recovery.
• Ensure pipeline architectures align with cloud modernization strategies and landing zone standards.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, DBAs, QA/Test Engineers, and Product Owners to support migration objectives.
• Ensure seamless integration of ETL processes with cloud infrastructure, data models, monitoring platforms, and downstream applications.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including data mappings, workflow diagrams, transformation specifications, SOPs, and issue logs.

Skills

ETL development

Python

PowerShell

Bash

AWS

Cloud data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Azure Synapse Analytics

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Apache Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Snowflake

AWS Glue

Amazon Redshift

Google BigQuery

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Migration Engineer to support a high-profile FBI data migration in Huntsville, AL. The role focuses on architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines.

You will design scalable ETL/ELT processes, integrate with cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, compliant, and timely data delivery. This long-term contract offers full benefits and on-site work.