Junior Data Engineer

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Job Summary:

Booz Allen Hamilton is focused on leveraging emerging capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and they are seeking a Mid Data Engineer to enhance their data engineering efforts. The role involves designing and building data pipelines and backend infrastructure to support advanced analytics and AI applications for defense and intelligence missions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the pipelines, services, and backend infrastructure that power advanced analytics and AI for our clients across defense and intelligence missions.

• Use experience with databases, data pipelines, and scalable application integration to shape how mission applications consume and act on data.

• Build robust infrastructure to support both legacy and bleeding-edge data sources, enabling AI/ML model deployment, geospatial visualization, and multi-modal applications.

• Connect operational systems with vector databases to embedding LLMs into field-deployable tools.

• Collaborate with developers, scientists, and analysts in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Refine skills in API development, data platform integration, and deployment across secure environments like AWS GovCloud and containerized infrastructure.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 2+ years of experience with programming languages including Python and C++

• 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines and storage solutions

• Experience with modern databases, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, or DuckDB

• Experience designing ETL/ELT workflows for structured and unstructured data

• Experience building containerized microservices using Docker or Podman and deploying on Kubernetes

• Experience working in cross-functional teams with developers, analysts, and modelers

• Ability to support data ingestion, transformation, and retrieval via APIs and backend services

• Bachelor’s degree

• Secret clearance

Preferred:

• Experience working with Department of Defense (DoD) data systems or secure networks

• Experience with vector-based search and AI-native infrastructure such as Llama.cpp or Ollama

• Experience with modern application frameworks like FastAPI, Gin, or Streamlit

• Experience integrating geospatial datasets using tools like ArcGIS

• Experience with AWS GovCloud and infrastructure-as-code practices

• Experience with real-time data ingestion, event-driven pipelines, or graph data models

• Experience with front-end ecosystems such as TypeScript and React

• Experience supporting MLOps or deploying AI models into production applications

• TS/SCI clearance

Company:

Booz Allen Hamilton is a consulting firm that specializes in analytics, technology, and engineering. Founded in 1914, the company is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company.