Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking an experienced ETL/Data Migration Engineer (Senior) to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama-based work program. The selected candidate will lead high complexity extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations supporting a major federal modernization program. This role is responsible for architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines that move high volume, multi-source datasets from legacy environments into modern cloud platforms. The engineer serves as a senior technical contributor within the Migration Workstream, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability throughout large scale migration cycles.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines supporting petabyte scale data migration.
- Build extraction and transformation logic for structured and unstructured datasets.
- Engineer automated workflows for performance, throughput, error handling, and resiliency.
- Align pipeline architecture with cloud landing zone requirements and modernization standards.
- Lead operational execution of ETL tasks during migration cycles, ensuring correct sequencing and validation.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, resolve data anomalies, and coordinate with engineering teams to stabilize operations.
- Conduct readiness testing and verify integration points between legacy systems and cloud targets.
- Perform detailed data quality checks, completeness assessments, and validation of migrated data.
- Lead root cause analysis for data defects and support corrective actions across the migration workflow.
- Document recurring issues, improve detection processes, and help define quality benchmarks.
- Partner with Cloud Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, DBAs, QA/Test Engineers, and Product Owners.
- Ensure ETL pipelines integrate seamlessly with cloud architectures, data models, monitoring tools, and downstream systems.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies, technical reviews, and migration planning activities.
- Create/maintain ETL documentation including data maps, flow diagrams, transformation logic, SOPs, and error logs.
- Provide pipeline performance updates, migration status reports, and data quality metrics to leadership.
- Support development of reusable processes and technical artifacts supporting repeatable migration operations.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in ETL development, data engineering, or enterprise scale migration operations.
- Strong experience with ETL tools, scripting languages, automation frameworks, and high volume data pipelines.
- Hands on experience with legacy system extraction, cloud ingestion, and multi format data transformation.
- Proven troubleshooting skills, including pipeline diagnostics and root cause analysis.
- Ability to operate in fast paced, multi team environments supporting mission critical delivery.
- 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 supporting federal modernization programs, especially in national-security environments.
- Experience operating ETL pipelines within AWS or other cloud environments.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed compute tools.
- Advanced scripting or automation expertise (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Experience supporting petabyte scale data migrations or multi system consolidation.
- 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 ETL development, data engineering, or enterprise-scale migration operations
- Strong experience with ETL tools, scripting languages, automation frameworks, and high-volume data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with legacy system extraction, cloud ingestion, and multi-format data transformation
- Proven troubleshooting skills, including pipeline diagnostics and root cause analysis
- Ability to work in fast-paced, multi-team environments supporting mission-critical delivery
- Ability to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI and ability to obtain a CI polygraph
- Experience supporting federal modernization programs, especially in national-security environments
- Experience operating ETL pipelines within AWS or other cloud environments
- Familiarity with DevSecOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed compute tools
- Advanced scripting or automation expertise using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools
- Experience supporting petabyte-scale data migrations or multi-system consolidation
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.
