Senior Data Platform Engineer - Backend & Pipelines (AWS)

Booz Allen Hamilton; Maryland; On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement backend services and production data pipelines for cyber platforms. You will own data ingestion, modeling, transformation, storage, and availability, collaborating with operators, analysts, and engineers to ensure robust data systems.

You will define testing strategies and build a reusable Python testing framework, integrating checks into CI/CD and maintaining fast feedback for daily development.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of backend Python development including APIs or data-processing components.
• 2+ years building/operating production data pipelines (ETL/ELT, validation, recovery).
• 2+ years deploying software on AWS and owning technical delivery for a service or feature.

Responsibilities

• Define testing strategy for key product behavior and failures.
• Build a maintainable testing framework and Python tooling.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD workflows.
• Create representative test data and reproducible environments.
• Report validation results and gaps to engineers; codify testing patterns.

Skills

Python

Backend services

Data pipelines

SQL

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Technical ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tooling

AWS

Job description

Booz Allen is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement backend services and production data pipelines for cyber platforms. You will own data ingestion, modeling, transformation, storage, and availability, collaborating with operators, analysts, and engineers to ensure robust data systems.

You will define testing strategies and build a reusable Python testing framework, integrating checks into CI/CD and maintaining fast feedback for daily development.