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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.\nSpecific duties and responsibilities include:\nDesign, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and migration of large, multi-source datasets.\nDevelop data models, schemas, mappings, and integration structures supporting legacy-to-cloud migration.\nImprove pipeline automation, performance, throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance.\nLead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, validation, and root-cause analysis for data quality issues.\nPartner with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams to integrate and validate data workflows.\nSupport AWS-based data engineering and ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and data-handling requirements.\nMentor data engineers and participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, architecture discussions, and migration planning.\nMaintain pipeline diagrams, mapping specifications, data dictionaries, and other technical documentation.\nTrack migration progress, pipeline performance, data quality, risks, and blockers, and support timely resolution.\nThis position requires active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI accesses with a CI polygraph.\nThis position is on-site with our customer in Huntsville, Alabama, and cannot be supported remotely.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or large scale data operations.\nHands on experience building pipelines for structured/unstructured data across enterprise environments.\nStrong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.\nFamiliarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), DevSecOps tooling, and scripting languages.\nExcellent analytical, documentation, and problem solving skills.\nMust be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.\n Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with petabyte scale or multi system migration programs.\nBackground supporting national security customers.\nExperience with CI/CD integration, automated testing pipelines, or micro service architectures.\nAdvanced knowledge of ETL frameworks, distributed compute tools, or cloud native data services.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2984,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Government","Military"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T22:10:58Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/anavation-data-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/anavation-data-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T04:49:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3156,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1844,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}