Lead Data Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
McLean, VA · $78k–$176k a year · Posted October 26, 2026
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $126,800 a year. Across 35 open lead data engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $141,500 to $181,000 and the median is $155,000. That is 18% below the median, below the middle half of those listings.
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About the job
...Job Number: R0251792 Data Engineer, Lead The Opportunity: Make enterprise data and knowledge usable, governed, and dependable for AI applications. You will design data architectures and build the pipelines, knowledge indexes, and retrieval services that ground...