Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama work program. The selected candidate provides support large scale data engineering and migration activities for a major federal modernization program. This role is responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and operating data pipelines supporting petabyte scale migration, transformation, and storage of structured and unstructured datasets. The Senior Data Engineer ensures data flows are reliable, repeatable, secure, and aligned to architectural standards required for transferring legacy datasets into modern cloud environments.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and migration of large, multi-source datasets.
- Develop data models, schemas, mappings, and integration structures supporting legacy-to-cloud migration.
- Improve pipeline automation, performance, throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, validation, and root-cause analysis for data quality issues.
- Partner with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams to integrate and validate data workflows.
- Support AWS-based data engineering and ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and data-handling requirements.
- Mentor data engineers and participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, architecture discussions, and migration planning.
- Maintain pipeline diagrams, mapping specifications, data dictionaries, and other technical documentation.
- Track migration progress, pipeline performance, data quality, risks, and blockers, and support timely resolution.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or large scale data operations.
- Hands on experience building pipelines for structured/unstructured data across enterprise environments.
- Strong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), DevSecOps tooling, and scripting languages.
- Excellent analytical, documentation, and problem solving skills.
- Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with petabyte scale or multi system migration programs.
- Background supporting national security customers.
- Experience with CI/CD integration, automated testing pipelines, or micro service architectures.
- Advanced knowledge of ETL frameworks, distributed compute tools, or cloud native data services.
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or large-scale data operations
- Hands-on experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data across enterprise environments
- Strong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation
- Familiarity with cloud environments, preferably AWS, DevSecOps tooling, and scripting languages
- Excellent analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work full-time on-site at the customer location in Huntsville, Alabama
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI and ability to obtain a CI polygraph
- Experience with petabyte-scale or multi-system migration programs
- Background supporting national security customers
- Experience with CI/CD integration, automated testing pipelines, or microservice architectures
- Advanced knowledge of ETL frameworks, distributed compute tools, or cloud-native data services
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
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