Sr. ETL & Data Migration Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer to join a federal IT consulting organization supporting an FBI modernization program in Huntsville, Alabama
. This 100% onsite role focuses on moving high-volume legacy datasets into a secure AWS cloud environment. The Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer will develop reliable migration pipelines and help modernize critical systems used to store, manage, and analyze mission-sensitive data.

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to migrate structured and unstructured datasets from legacy systems into cloud environments.
• Automate extraction, transformation, and ingestion workflows with effective sequencing, error handling, recovery, and performance monitoring.
• Execute migration cycles, troubleshoot pipeline failures, and resolve data anomalies in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Validate migrated data for accuracy and completeness, investigate defects, and implement repeatable data quality checks.
• Partner with Cloud, Dev Sec Ops , DBA, and QA teams while maintaining data mappings, transformation documentation, operational procedures, and migration status reports.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of hands‑on experience in ETL development, data migration, or large‑scale data engineering.
• Strong experience designing and operating advanced ETL/ELT pipelines using data integration tools, scripting languages, and automation frameworks.
• Expertise in structured and unstructured data transformation, cleansing, mapping, and validation.
• Experience extracting data from legacy systems, supporting cloud ingestion, and working with big data tools; AWS experience preferred.
• Proven pipeline diagnostics and root cause analysis skills. Federal modernization, petabyte‑scale migration, Python, Bash, Power Shell, and Dev Sec Ops /CI/CD experience preferred.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance.

• Salary Range: $140,000–$150,000 annually, depending on experience.
• Comprehensive Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Tuition Reimbursement, and Sick Leave as Required by Law.

This job opens for applications October 12, 2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

‑volume data, petabyte‑scale migration, big data, distributed computing, pipeline development, pipeline optimization, pipeline automation, Python, SQL, Bash, Power Shell, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, root cause analysis, federal modernization, FBI modernization, active clearance, security clearance, onsite, Huntsville, AL, Alabama

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