Senior Data Platforms Engineer - Backend & Pipelines

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

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Platforms Software Engineer to design and improve backend services and production data pipelines for cyber platforms, working closely with operators, analysts, and engineers.

You will own services from design through deployment, decide how data is ingested, modeled, transformed, stored, and exposed to applications, and build resilient pipelines that handle changing formats and sources.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with professional software engineering including building, shipping, and supporting production software.
• 3+ years developing backend software in Python, including services, APIs, or data-processing components.
• 2+ years building and operating production data pipelines, including ETL/ELT workflows, data validation, and failure recovery.
• 2+ years building, deploying, or operating software on a cloud platform such as AWS.
• 2+ years owning technical delivery for a service, data pipeline, or product feature, including clarifying requirements, making design decisions, and supporting production systems.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, including data modeling, schema design, transformations, and query optimization.
• Experience using Docker or container tools, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows to deliver production software.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems.

Responsibilities

• Define a testing strategy around important product behavior and the impact of failures, choosing where unit, integration, and end-to-end tests provide the most useful evidence.
• Design and build a maintainable testing framework and reusable Python tooling using established testing libraries.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD workflows and keep feedback fast and reliable enough for daily development.
• Create representative test data, reproducible test environments, and diagnostics that help engineers reproduce failures and distinguish product defects from test, data, or environment problems.
• Report what was validated, what failed, and where meaningful gaps remain so engineers have a clear view of product quality.
• Establish testing patterns that other engineers can use and extend through code reviews, worked examples, and documentation of key technical decisions.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Data pipelines

AWS

SQL

Docker

CI/CD

Test design

Production support

Leadership/ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tooling

AWS tooling

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Platforms Software Engineer to design and improve backend services and production data pipelines for cyber platforms, working closely with operators, analysts, and engineers.

You will own services from design through deployment, decide how data is ingested, modeled, transformed, stored, and exposed to applications, and build resilient pipelines that handle changing formats and sources.