Senior Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Define scalable solution architectures for a contemporary federal health data platform that encompasses cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments.

• Convert mission, business, data, security, and operational needs into technical designs and implementation strategies.

• Develop both current-state and target-state architectures to facilitate the incremental modernization of legacy data systems.

• Create integration strategies across defense and federal systems, including APIs, pipelines, shared services, and reusable data products.

• Establish reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, and architectural guidelines.

• Assess architectural alternatives based on security, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery risk.

• Guide the use of Databricks and cloud services across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.

• Account for data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, access, and lifecycle needs.

• Lead technical discovery and architectural discussions with engineers, technical leaders, customers, and mission stakeholders.

• Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, interface definitions, design documentation, decision records, and technical roadmaps.

• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Technical Leads to review designs and resolve intricate technical challenges.

• Identify dependencies, constraints, and risks, driving resolution across teams.

• Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Advocate for reusable patterns, lessons learned, and technical guidance throughout the shared data platform ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 10 years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, software architecture, platform engineering, data engineering, or a corresponding technical field.

• Proven experience in designing complex enterprise data platforms or distributed solutions that span multiple systems, applications, data sources, and organizational boundaries.

• Strong grasp of modern data platform concepts, including data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, access, APIs, and data products.

• Experience in designing hybrid solutions that encompass public cloud, on-premises infrastructure, and government data centers.

• Expertise in architecting platforms that support very large or highly complex datasets.

• Experience in integrating modern platforms with legacy systems and developing incremental modernization strategies.

• Comprehensive understanding of API design, system integration patterns, and data exchange methodologies.

• Experience in architecting solutions on AWS, with familiarity with Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud.

• Working knowledge of data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, and principles of data governance.

• Ability to incorporate security, availability, performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements into technical designs.

• Experience in evaluating technology options and documenting architecture diagrams, reference architectures, interface designs, technical roadmaps, and key technical decisions.

• Experience in guiding engineering teams through the implementation of complex technical designs.

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, development lifecycles, and Git-based workflows.

• Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills.

• Ability to independently navigate ambiguity, identify cross-cutting technical risks, and drive complex architectural decisions to resolution.

• Active Secret clearance.

• Desired: experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Palantir Foundry, Advana, federal health or regulated data environments, federal systems and security requirements, and AI/ML-enabled components.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary.

• Opportunities for variable compensation.

• Health insurance.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Health savings accounts.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Paid and unpaid time off.

• Industry-leading 401k contributions.