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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.
This position requires active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI accesses with a CI polygraph.
This position is on-site with our customer in Huntsville, Alabama, and cannot be supported remotely.
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.
Additional Information
Benefits
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
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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