ETL/Data Migration Engineer (Senior)
Huntsville · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Huntsville
About Anavation
- AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
- If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
- AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- - 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.
About the role
- The Senior ETL/Data Migration Engineer will lead high-complexity ETL operations for a major federal modernization program.
- The role involves architecting, operating, and optimizing data migration pipelines to move high-volume, multi-source datasets from legacy environments to modern cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for petabyte-scale data migration.
- Build extraction and transformation logic for structured and unstructured datasets.
- Engineer automated workflows for performance, throughput, error handling, and resiliency.
- Lead operational execution of ETL tasks during migration cycles.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, resolve data anomalies, and coordinate with engineering teams.
- Perform detailed data quality checks, completeness assessments, and validation of migrated data.
- Lead root cause analysis for data defects and support corrective actions.
- Partner with Cloud Engineers, Data Engineers, DevSecOps teams, DBAs, and QA/Test Engineers.
- Create and maintain ETL documentation including data maps, flow diagrams, and transformation logic.
- Provide pipeline performance updates and migration status reports to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for SCI and ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
- 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.
- Must be able to work full-time on-site at the customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Workplace
- Position is on-site with the customer in Huntsville, Alabama.
Skills
- ETL
- ELT
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- AWS
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD
