Data Engineer - Sr at Nalley Consulting
Charlottesville, VA
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Jul 5, 2026
Charlottesville, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level data engineering role supporting intelligence community missions, focused on building and maintaining data pipelines, platforms, and machine learning tools — without AI-assisted coding environments. Day-to-day work spans ETL processes, predictive and statistical analysis, data visualization, and mentoring a cross-functional team of engineers and analysts in an agile setting. Suits experienced engineers comfortable operating within classified environments.
Senior level · 3+ years · Charlottesville, VA · TS/SCI clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $125,480 (middle half $98,837–$159,502).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This role genuinely spans both Data Engineering (pipeline/platform building, ETL, data modeling) and Data Science (ML, statistical analysis, predictive analytics), making the SOC classification a close call. 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen as the primary code because pipeline/platform design and data engineering are the dominant framing; 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is a strong runner-up given the ML, statistical analysis, and AI tooling duties.
A current CI (Counterintelligence) polygraph is explicitly required alongside TS/SCI — this is a hard gate beyond a standard TS/SCI clearance, though the schema captures it under TopSecretSci.
The posting explicitly prohibits AI-assisted IDEs ('raw coding experience without AI assisted IDEs'), which is an unusual operational constraint worth flagging for candidates.
The minimum required experience is 3+ years (per the Required qualifications section); the Desired qualifications section escalates several of those same requirements to 7+ years, indicating a strong preference for a more experienced candidate.
R is listed in the required qualifications narrative alongside Python as a 'major data science language' — treated as a hard gate based on its placement in the required duties description.
Power BI and Tableau appear in the required duties/qualifications narrative and are treated as hard gates accordingly.
Degree requirement is None because the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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