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Using agile lifecycle development and Git-based workflows, you’ll partner with full-stack engineers and data scientists to operationalize data-intensive capabilities across mission systems.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine and own streaming architecture, such as pub/sub, fanout, or backpressure, and event-driven microservices for high-availability and fault tolerance.\n\nSelect, configure, and scale distributed messaging, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS, WebSockets/gRPC, and API gateways.\n\nEstablish data contracts and schema evolution, such as Avro, Protobuf, or JSON Schema, with registry, serialization, and compatibility policies.\n\nDesign for observability, such as OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and SLOs, and drive resiliency patterns, such as idempotency, retries, or circuit breakers.\n\nLead cloud-native deployments on Docker and Kubernetes; guide infrastructure choices across AWS or Azure.\n\nSet security-by-design standards, such as encryption in transit/at rest, authN/authZ, or secrets management in partnership with DevSecOps.\n\nMentor engineers, review designs and code, and champion SDLC best practices, automated testing, and documentation.\n\nJoin us. 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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.\nSalary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,900.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.Identity Statement\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. 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