Software Data Engineer
The Opportunity:
Are you looking for an opportunity not just to analyze data, but to architect real-time analytics platforms that deliver critical insights in the defense industry? As a Realtime Data Analytics Engineer, you’ll drive end-to-end product design, from ingestion to computation to visualization for low-latency, high-volume data pipelines. Using agile lifecycle development and Git-based workflows, you’ll partner with engineers, architects, and data scientists to operationalize streaming analytics, embed models into production systems, and deliver insights where milliseconds matter.
As a data engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.
Here, you’ll work with a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examinations while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients.
What You’ll Do:
Architect and optimize streaming analytics pipelines using Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Kafka Streams, including windowing, stateful processing, and exactly-once semantics.
Build and refine data models, feature extraction patterns, and timeseries analytics for largescale, high-velocity data.
Design and deploy real-time APIs and visualization layers using REST, WebSockets, and modern UI frameworks.
Integrate operational machine learning workflows, including online inference, drift monitoring, and performance tuning.
Implement observability for analytics workloads, including metrics, tracing, and instrumentation for data quality and latency.
Utilize Docker and Kubernetes to deploy analytics services across cloud environments such as AWS and Azure.
Establish best practices for data governance, schema evolution, lineage, and auditability across streaming ecosystems.
Mentor engineers and data scientists, review designs and code, and champion SDLC best practices, testing, and documentation.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
5+ years of experience in full‑stack software engineering, including front‑end and back‑end development
Experience with modern programming languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Node.js, and front‑end libraries, such as React or Angular
Experience with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and NoSQL platforms, such as MongoDB or DynamoDB, including designing schemas for full‑stack applications
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and integrating them with responsive front‑end applications
Ability to work with Docker and Kubernetes to deploy and maintain scalable full‑stack applications
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree
Nice If You Have:
5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or streaming‑focused software development
Experience with real-time feature stores, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or other large-scale data lake technologies
Experience with advanced observability, anomaly detection, or model monitoring
Experience integrating analytics with game engines, such as Unity, Unreal, or Prepar3D, for spatial or simulation-driven visualization
Experience with data warehousing using AWS Redshift, MySQL, or Snowflake
Experience with Agile engineering practices
Top Secret clearance
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. 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.
Salary 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 $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (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
As 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. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy
AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
