Data Engineer

The Opportunity:  

Ever-expanding technology like IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means that there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need a data professional like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions—from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence.  

As a data engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll use your skills and experience to help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll develop and deploy the pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful. 

Here, you’ll work with a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced and agile environment. You’ll sharpen your skills in analytical exploration and data examination while you support the assessment, design, developing, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients. This position is located in Atlanta, GA or Washington, DC.

Work with us to use data for good. 

Join us. The world can’t wait.  

You Have:    

• 3+ years of experience in Data Warehouse development 

• 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining scalable data stores that supply big data in forms needed for business analysis  

• 1+ years of experience with data analysis of aggregated data from multiple sources in cloud-based environments 

• Experience with SQL and Python for retrieving, parsing, and processing structured and unstructured data  

• Experience with developing scalable ETL or ELT workflows for reporting and analytics using AWS based technologies 

• Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats and support the project team to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms  

• Ability to perform backend SQL and NoSQL database testing, including post-deployment and data validation testing

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements

• Bachelor's degree  

Nice If You Have:    

• Experience creating solutions within a collaborative and cross-functional team environment  

• Experience with AWS Glue, AWS Athena, and Postgres 

• Experience with distributed data and computing tools such as Cloudera, Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, AWS EMR, or Kafka  

• Experience working on real-time data and streaming applications   

• Experience with NoSQL implementation using MongoDB or Cassandra  

• Experience with data warehousing, including AWS Redshift, MySQL, or Snowflake  

• Experience with UNIX and Linux, including basic commands and Shell scripting  

• Experience with Agile engineering practices   

Vetting: 

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet th