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Overview

BigBear.ai is hiring a Data Engineer to join our Data Architecture & Engineering team supporting mission-critical outcomes. In this role, you’ll build scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines that turn complex, raw data into trusted, analytics-ready datasets. You’ll partner closely with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver data products that power applications, reporting, and decision advantage in high-impact environments.

What you will do

  • Design and build end-to-end pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver structured and unstructured data, aligned with modern ETL/ELT best practices.
  • Develop and operate ETL processes that emphasize data quality, consistency, performance, and repeatability across environments.
  • Leverage AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift) to enable scalable, secure data processing and storage.
  • Create and maintain data assets such as schemas, transformation logic, and documentation (data dictionaries, lineage/dataflows, runbooks).
  • Monitor and support production data systems, ensuring integrity, fault tolerance, redundancy, and strong operational hygiene.
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver new data features and improvements, including documentation of capabilities and technical support procedures.
  • Support database engineering tasks including indexing, access controls, optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Contribute in an Agile environment, delivering iterative value and responding quickly to evolving mission needs.
  • Build and integrate APIs to enable secure, interoperable access to data across systems.
  • Work with cloud messaging APIs and implement push-notification mechanisms when applicable.
  • Continuously improve tooling, patterns, and practices to strengthen data engineering maturity and mission outcomes.

What you should have

  • Active TS/SCI clearance (must possess and maintain).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
  • 4–8 years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, and/or database administration.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-based data integration.
  • Proven ability to design ETL/ELT architecture and build reliable data pipelines at scale.
  • Solid foundation in database design and performance (schema design, indexing, optimization).
  • Experience with API development and integration.
  • Ability to transform raw data into analytics- and reporting-ready formats with clear quality standards.
  • Familiarity working in Agile teams and collaborative engineering environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and comfort supporting production data systems.

What we'd like you to have

  • Experience with cloud messaging APIs and push notification systems.
  • Deeper hands-on experience with database administration and performance tuning.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and initiative in adopting new tools/approaches to solve complex problems.
  • Experience supporting operations/production support for data platforms.
  • Familiarity with national security or other mission-driven data environments.

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.