Data Engineer- SME
SOSi · Huntsville, AL
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Jun 30, 2026
Huntsville, AL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Data Engineer role embedded with a government customer in Huntsville, Alabama, focused on building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines, ETL processes, and ML infrastructure on supercomputing resources handling petabyte-scale data. The work involves automating manual workflows into MLOps-based systems, designing data architectures, and implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, in close collaboration with Data Scientists. A Top Secret/SCI clearance and at least seven years of relevant experience are required.
Senior level · 7+ years · Huntsville, AL · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $104,100 (middle half $101,657–$142,578).
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 (7)
SOC classification is a genuine toss-up: the role is titled 'Data Engineer' and centers on building pipelines, ETL, and data infrastructure (15-1243 Database Architects), but the heavy emphasis on writing software, CI/CD, MLOps, and extending ML infrastructure also makes 15-1252 Software Developers a strong fit. 15-1243 was chosen as the primary because pipeline/warehouse construction and data architecture are the stated core duties.
The stack section ('The team will work with technologies including…') lists PyTorch/TensorFlow, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, Weaviate, Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, GitLab, Argo, and Harness as context rather than gated requirements; these are marked preferred accordingly.
Weaviate (a vector database) appears in the stack narrative but was omitted as a standalone skill because it is a very niche tool listed only in passing stack context alongside better-known databases already captured.
The degree requirement (BS or MS in a quantitative field) appears only under 'Preferred Qualifications', so no minimum degree is hard-required.
An active TS/SCI clearance is an explicit hard gate ('Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility' listed under Qualifications).
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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