Data Architect

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

The Data Architect shall provide leadership, accountability and expertise to ensure all IT and cyber systems across a large, complex, heterogeneous, geographically dispersed enterprise meet user mission requirements, are interoperable, and are defensible. The Data Architect will collaborate with a team of technical experts and leaders to design, create, manage and optimize the client’s data architecture and data access controls. Functional activities include data ownership, stewardship, governance, centricity and decision support approaches. The Data Architect will collaborate to design data models; support system development and integration; support data governance; and collaborate with stakeholders internal to the team and with the government to maximize the performance, interoperability and defensibility of all systems. The Data Architect will prepare and deliver information regarding data architecture and data management to government and contractor leadership as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

·         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management or related technical field or a minimum of 10 years of relevant Data Architecture experience.  

·         Five (5+) or more years of experience serving as a Data Architect for a large, heterogeneous enterprise.

·         Demonstrated expertise and experience developing data models and solving problems related to Data Architecture.

·         Demonstrated expertise and experience conceiving and implementing data tagging, labeling, and classification approaches/schemas for mission critical operations

·         Demonstrated experience with technologies including but not limited to SQL, NoSQL, Splunk, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large language models, and cloud solutions including MS Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.

·         Demonstrated experience with relevant processes including but not limited to data security and access controls, API design and development, Big Data analytics and management, ETL, data governance and quality, and cloud data services

·         Experience solving problems related to data ownership, stewardship, governance, centricity and decision support approaches

·         Superior written and oral communications skills and experience interacting with senior executives

Desired Qualifications:

·         Three (3+) or more years of experience implementing data services in accordance with DoD Policy and guidelines.

·         Familiarity/Experience with Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF)

·         Familiarity/Experience with Zero Trust Architecture, including Data Pillar capabilities and activities

·         A Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management or related technical field.

Clearance Requirements:

Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.