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ETL Migration Engineer Location:
Huntsville, AL Position Description:
Senior ETL & Data Migration Engineer will lead high complexity extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations supporting a major federal modernization program. This role is responsible for architecting, operating, validating, and optimizing data migration pipelines that move high volume, multi-source datasets from legacy environments into modern cloud platforms. The engineer serves as a senior technical contributor within the Migration Workstream, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability throughout large scale migration cycles.
Primary Responsibilities:
ETL Pipeline Architecture & Execution
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines supporting petabyte scale data migration.
- Build extraction and transformation logic for structured and unstructured datasets.
- Engineer automated workflows for performance, throughput, error handling, and resiliency.
- Align pipeline architecture with cloud landing zone requirements and modernization standards. Data Migration Operations
- Lead operational execution of ETL tasks during migration cycles, ensuring correct sequencing and validation.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, resolve data anomalies, and coordinate with engineering teams to stabilize operations.
- Conduct readiness testing and verify integration points between legacy systems and cloud targets. Data Quality, Validation & Governance
- Perform detailed data quality checks, completeness assessments, and validation of migrated data. ,
- Lead root cause analysis for data defects and support corrective actions across the migration workflow.
- Document recurring issues, improve detection processes, and help define quality benchmarks. Cross Functional Technical Collaboration
- Partner with Cloud Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, DBAs, QA/Test Engineers, and Product Owners.
- Ensure ETL pipelines integrate seamlessly with cloud architectures, data models, monitoring tools, and downstream systems.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies, technical reviews, and migration planning activities. Documentation & Reporting
- Create and maintain ETL documentation including data maps, flow diagrams, transformation logic, SOPs, and error logs.
- Provide pipeline performance updates, migration status reports, and data quality metrics to leadership.
- Support development of reusable processes and technical artifacts supporting repeatable migration operations. Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
- Must have Active Top Secret Security Clearance, U.S. Citizenship.
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in ETL development, data engineering, or enterprise scale migration operations.
- Strong experience with ETL tools, scripting languages, automation frameworks, and high volume data pipelines.
- Hands on experience with legacy system extraction, cloud ingestion, and multi format data transformation.
- Proven troubleshooting skills, including pipeline diagnostics and root cause analysis.
- Ability to operate in fast paced, multi team environments supporting mission critical delivery.
Preferred Qualifications:
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- Experience supporting federal modernization programs including DOJ, FBI, or Intelligence Community.
- Experience operating ETL pipelines within AWS or other cloud environments.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed compute tools.
- Advanced scripting or automation expertise (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Experience supporting petabyte scale data migrations or multi system consolidation.
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