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# Data Engineer, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $77,500.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Security, DevOps, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Machine Learning, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, DataOps, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Azure Data Factory, Large Language Models, Data Lakes, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Databricks
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://justjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18058966?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18058966%2FData-Engineer-Senior-Georgia-Atlanta

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience withPySpark, SQL, distributed dataprocessing,and enterprise-scale data engineering
 * 5+ years of experience designing, developing, owning, andmaintainingend-to-end production data pipelines
 * 5+ years of experience with data architecture, including schema design, Medallion architecture, partitioning strategies, and performance optimization
 * 5+ years of experience collaborating with business stakeholders, gathering requirements, and delivering technical presentations to technical and non-technical audiences
 * 2+ years of experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Job orchestration
 * 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, or cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
 * Experience with Palantir Foundry, including pipeline development, transformation logic, and data modeling
 * Experience supervising others and leading deliverables in cross-functional environments
 * Ability to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
 * Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience withCI/CDpipelinesfor dataengineeringandapp servicesusing Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling
 * Experience withGenerative AI, includingRAG, LLMs, and embeddingmodels, and delivering AI-drivenbusinesssolutions
 * Experienceimplementingdata quality,observability, monitoring, data security, and enterprise data governance
 * Knowledge of Agile development methodologies, DevOps, and DataOPs practices

## Description

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 aseniorData Engineer, you know that organizing big data can yield pivotal insights whenit'sgathered from disparate sources. We need a big data professional like you to help our clients find answers in their data toimpactimportant missions, from fraud detection to cancer research, to national intelligence.

As aseniorData Engineer at Booz Allen,you'lluse yourexpertiseto lead data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You'll oversee the development and deployment of pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful. Here, you'll guide and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment.You'lluse yourexpertisein analytical exploration and data examination while you oversee the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients.

In this role, you will also support code environmentsusingPythonand SQL, translating and modernizing analytics workflows across platforms. You'lllead the development of shared libraries and modular code repositories, ensuring maintainability and consistency across enterprise teams. Your experience with Palantir Foundry will be critical as you collaborate on onboarding programs to the platform and drive adoption through training, integration, and architecture support.This positionis located in Atlanta, GA.


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