Senior Data Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, governance, and validation of enterprise data architecture for the DCIPS Future Department of War modernization initiative.

• Ensure secure, reliable, and scalable data architectures within AWS GovCloud environments that are authorized for IL2, IL4, and IL5.

• Conduct an initial assessment of the architecture and formulate a recovery strategy.

• Catalog existing artifacts, pinpoint gaps and risks, establish a definitive baseline, and prioritize remedial actions.

• Create and sustain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.

• Specify schemas, entity relationships, business rules, data standards, and validation criteria.

• Maintain data dictionaries, metadata, lineage records, source-to-target mappings, and data-flow diagrams.

• Align mission workflows, application functionalities, databases, APIs, interfaces, and reporting needs.

• Establish governance for data architecture, modeling standards, architectural decisions, schema versioning, and change control.

• Lead planning for data migration, including profiling, cleansing, transformation, mock migrations, reconciliation, cutover, and post-conversion validation.

• Design systems for 99.99% availability, rapid failover, scalability, backup, and recovery.

• Integrate privacy and security requirements, including data minimization, access controls, encryption, masking, auditability, and retention.

• Define secure API and data exchange protocols for Military Service components and external systems.

• Lead or assist in delivering architecture, database, reporting, and data migration outcomes.

• Supervise and mentor database administrators, data engineers, and developers.

• Present architectural decisions, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to contractor and government stakeholders.

• Collaborate with mission stakeholders, system architects, cybersecurity professionals, database administrators, developers, and testers to ensure data integrity, availability, privacy, and accurate inter-Service data exchange.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Minimum of seven years of experience in data architecture, database architecture, or data engineering.

• Proven experience leading data architecture for a complex, mission-critical system.

• Proficiency in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and AWS services such as Amazon RDS or Aurora.

• Experience with AWS GovCloud or another regulated cloud environment.

• Knowledge of schema design, normalization, indexing, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality controls.

• Expertise in planning and validating complex legacy data migrations.

• Experience in designing highly available database solutions with replication, backup, recovery, and failover capabilities.

• Understanding of DoWAF, the DoW Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, relevant DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, and Zero Trust principles.

• Experience in safeguarding personally identifiable information and other sensitive government data.

• Familiarity with API-based data exchange, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence systems.

• AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or another relevant AWS certification is preferred.

• TOGAF certification or formal DoDAF training is preferred.

• Applicable DoW 8140 qualification for the assigned DoW Cyberspace Workforce Framework work role is preferred.

• Experience supporting Casualty and Mortuary Affairs operations, personnel, case management, or similarly sensitive mission systems is preferred.

• Strong analytical skills and architectural decision-making capabilities.

• Exceptional attention to data quality and model integrity.

• Ability to produce clear and concise technical documentation.

• Capacity to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to take ownership, resolve inherited issues, and drive architectural decisions to completion.

🏝️ Benefits

• Periodic travel may be required.

• Mentorship and team leadership opportunities.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections.

• Authorization to share resume and personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this and comparable positions.