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# System Engineer

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $86,900.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Signals Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Data Discovery, Data Governance, Data Sharing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Data Flow Control, Data Streaming, Data Processing, Apache Nifi
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3edb8323-858b-4448-a921-8ccf6bb4f5dc

## About the Role

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer's environment and how to develop the right solutions for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution., * Experience with data flow, Apache NiFi, or mission systems

 * Experience defining and applying data tagging and handling requirements
 * Experience analyzing and defining data schemas and data processing requirements
 * Experience develop ing capability level and functional requirements, mission scenarios, use cases, or business processes
 * Knowledge of data governance concepts, such as data provenance, classification, sizing, retention, data sharing, and marking
 * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
 * Bachelor's degree in a System Engineering or field and 14+ years of experience with systems engineering, or 19+ years of experience with systems engineering in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience defining requirements, architecture, or design elements for systems or sof tware that deal with data exchange, interfaces, or APIs
 * Experience defining and modeling business processes and workflows and identifying mechanisms and approaches for process improvement or automation
 * Knowledge of signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) or cyber data discovery and analysis met hods
 * Knowledge of cross-domain technologies, concepts, or policies
 * Knowledge of DoD agency policies and directives as they apply to IT SIGINT collection, dataflow, and information sharing with internal and external partners
 * Knowledge of DoD or IC data formats and legal authorities for mission data

## Description

As a Dataflow System Engineer on our team, you have the chance to shape the evolution of mission data governance by leading modernization efforts for the client's enterprise data flow team. Your customer will t rus t you to provide Tier 1 operations support for customer data flow requests, specify requirements for new data flows, coordinate with data flow service provider s, and define processes, business rules, and functional requirements for mission systems that support data flow. You will work closely with customers and stakeholders across a variety of roles and teams to plan and implement dataflows supporting critical cyber missions. On our team, you'll be able to broaden your skill set into areas like cross-domain technologies and concepts, data handling and tagging, and data schema develop ment and validation. Grow your skills by merging system engineering and mission data governance to create modernized processes and systems supporting enterprise data flow for a national
security client. Join our team and create the future of mission data governance in national security.


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