Data Management 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, 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. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Work with us to use data for good.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• 3+ years of experience managinglarge-scale data ecosystems, including designing storage strategies such asintelligent tieringfor cost optimization and performance
• Experience withmetadata management toolssuch asOpenMetadata, including setup, configuration, and integration into data pipelines to ensure discoverability, lineage tracking, and governance
• Experience integrating storage and metadata strategies into Agile, cross-functional development teams to ensure alignment with real-time and batch processing pipelines
• Knowledge ofdata lifecycle managementstrategies, including tiering data across hot, warm, and cold storage layers, retention policies, and archival workflows to support petabyte-scale and continuously-ingested datasets
• Knowledge ofcloud-based storage systems and intelligent tiering features, such asAWS S3 Intelligent-Tiering, or in Azure or GCP, including APIs and configuration
• Knowledge ofdata observability advancementsto monitor, assess, and optimize the performance of pipelines and data storage systems in distributed cloud environments
• Ability to work with large datasets using programming languages such as Python to develop and optimize data organization, storage, and transformation workflows
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Data Engineering

Nice If You Have:

• Experience configuring cloud-native tools forpolicies on intelligent tiering, such as automating data movement between storage tiers usingLambda, Step Functions, or equivalent workflows
• Experience working withOpenMetadata integrationsinto existing tools like Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, and large-scale orchestration systems, ensuring metadata catalogs automatically synchronize with pipeline operations
• Experience working withcontainerized environments,such as Docker or Kubernetes, and modernorchestration tools,such as Airflow or Prefect, to optimize both metadata workflows and storage pipelines
• Experience working with implementingdata governance frameworkssuch as access controls and lineage policies that integrate with OpenMetadata or equivalent metadata tools
• Knowledge ofgeospatial datasetsorscientific data formatssuch as NetCDF, GRIB, or HDF5 commonly used in weather or satellite data systems, and their implications for storage architecture
• Knowledge ofdistributed query enginessuch asPresto, Trino,Hive, orSpark, tuned for performance on a lakehouse or intelligent tiering-enabled data lake architecture.
• Knowledge ofreal-time data streaming tools and integrationssuch asKafkaorAWS Kinesis, ensuring metadata tracks changes and tiering strategies accommodate time-sensitive ingestion workflows.
• Knowledge ofcost modeling for cloud data storage, with the
• Knowledge of Agile engineering practices, including CICD pipelines and collaboration with data engineers, AI engineers, and product teams to iteratively deliver optimized data ecosystems
• Ability to analyze usage patterns and recommend optimizations for performance, cost, and data accessibility at scale

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 the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a Booz Allen or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.