Sr. ETL & Data Migration Engineer

Zachary Piper, LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & Holidays

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k

Tuition Reimbursement

Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer to join a federal IT program in Huntsville, Alabama. This 100% onsite role focuses on moving high‑volume legacy datasets into a secure AWS cloud, developing reliable migration pipelines and ensuring data integrity for mission‑critical systems.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in ETL/data engineering, is proficient with AWS and CI/CD, and holds an active Top Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on ETL development, data migration, or large-scale data engineering.
• Experience with advanced ETL/ELT pipelines and automation.
• Proficiency in structured/unstructured data transformation, cleansing, mapping, and validation.
• Experience extracting data from legacy systems, cloud ingestion, AWS preferred.
• Security clearance: active Top Secret required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to migrate data into cloud environments.
• Automate extraction, transformation, and ingestion workflows with error handling and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and resolve data anomalies with engineering teams.
• Validate migrated data for accuracy and completeness; implement data quality checks.
• Collaborate with Cloud, DevSecOps, DBA, and QA teams; maintain mappings and migration reports.

Skills

8+ years ETL/Data Eng

AWS

Python

Bash/PowerShell

DevSecOps/CI/CD

Data migration

Data transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

SQL

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer to join a federal IT consulting organization supporting an FBI modernization program in Huntsville, Alabama. This 100% onsite role focuses on moving high-volume legacy datasets into a secure AWS cloud environment. The Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer will develop reliable migration pipelines and help modernize critical systems used to store, manage, and analyze mission-sensitive data.

Responsibilities of the Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer Include:

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to migrate structured and unstructured datasets from legacy systems into cloud environments.
• Automate extraction, transformation, and ingestion workflows with effective sequencing, error handling, recovery, and performance monitoring.
• Execute migration cycles, troubleshoot pipeline failures, and resolve data anomalies in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Validate migrated data for accuracy and completeness, investigate defects, and implement repeatable data quality checks.
• Partner with Cloud, DevSecOps, DBA, and QA teams while maintaining data mappings, transformation documentation, operational procedures, and migration status reports.

Qualifications for the Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer Include:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of hands‑on experience in ETL development, data migration, or large‑scale data engineering.
• Strong experience designing and operating advanced ETL/ELT pipelines using data integration tools, scripting languages, and automation frameworks.
• Expertise in structured and unstructured data transformation, cleansing, mapping, and validation.
• Experience extracting data from legacy systems, supporting cloud ingestion, and working with big data tools; AWS experience preferred.
• Proven pipeline diagnostics and root cause analysis skills. Federal modernization, petabyte-scale migration, Python, Bash, PowerShell, and DevSecOps/CI/CD experience preferred.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance.

Compensation and Benefits for the Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer Include:

• Salary Range: $140,000-$150,000 annually, depending on experience.
• Comprehensive Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Tuition Reimbursement, and Sick Leave as Required by Law.

This job opens for applications 11/4/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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