Databricks Lakehouse Engineer & Analyst, Senior

The Opportunity:

As a data scientist, you’re excited at the prospect of unlocking the secrets held by a data set, and you’re fascinated by the possibilities presented by IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In an increasingly connected world, massive amounts of structured and unstructured data open new opportunities. As a data scientist at Booz Allen, you can help turn these complex data sets into useful information to solve global challenges.

Across private and public sectors, from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence, we need you to help find the answers in the data.

Our U.S. government agency client is standing up a next‑generation Databricks Lakehouse environment to power real‑time fraud detection, investigative decisioning, and AI‑driven risk modeling. We are seeking an exceptional, hands‑on technical leader who can own the full architecture end‑to‑end while also guiding functional analysis, model integration, governance, and delivery in a complex federal environment.

This mid-level role blends responsibilities typically spread across a Data Engineer, Platform Architect, ML Engineer, Business Analyst, and Federal Program Manager. The ideal candidate is a versatile Databricks practitioner who excels at building scalable data systems, enabling fraud operations, and ensuring compliance in a regulated federal context.

Work with us as we use data science for good.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:5+ years of experience with data engineering, architecture, or ML engineering

Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, and structured streaming

Experience designing Bronze, Silver, or Gold architectures

Experience with fraud analytics, anomaly detection, or risk scoring

Knowledge of Unity Catalog governance

Ability to collaborate with federal stakeholders in a regulated environment

Ability to operate independently in a lean, high‑impact environment

Public Trust Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, or SQL/No

SQL Experience with Distributed data and computing tools, including Map Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2

Possession of exceptional cross‑functional communication skills including technical and non‑technical

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client;
Public Trust determination 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 $99,000.00 to $ (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.

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