Senior Data Migration Engineer (Top Secret)

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

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/Holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401k

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Data Migration Engineer to support a data migration project for the FBI in Huntsville, Alabama. The role focuses on architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will design scalable ETL/ELT workflows, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure robust performance, reliability, and security. This is a 100% onsite, long-term contract opportunity with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8+ years of data engineering, ETL development, 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

Data pipelines

Python

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Tools

AWS

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Apache Spark

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Migration Engineer to support a data migration project for the FBI in Huntsville, AL. The team is seeking an engineer with expertise architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines for a critical project. Details below:

This job opens for applications on 10/26/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

Location: Huntsville, AL or Quantico, VA (100% onsite)

Responsibilities of the Data Migration Engineer:

• 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.

Qualifications of the Data Migration Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8+ years of data engineering, ETL development, and large scale migrations
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Strong experience with ETL tools, automation frameworks (Python, Powershell, Bash), and high volume data pipelines.
• Experience with legacy system extraction, cloud ingestion, and multi format data transformation
• Ability to operate in a fast past environment
• Experience operating ETL pipelines within AWS or other cloud environment

Compensation of the Data Migration Engineer:

• Total compensation based on experience level - $155,000-$175,000+ **based on experience level and total years of experience**
• Full Benefits: PTO/Holidays, Medical, Dental, and Vision, 401k
• Brand-new, long term contract

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