Data Architect

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Arlington, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

We deliver essential technology services to our customers in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interests of our nation. Securi Gence is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support the SAGE Team’s architecture and modernization efforts within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Technology Directorate (ITD) environment.

The SAGE Team provides architectural support for on premises and multi-cloud enterprises operating across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments, including Impact Level 4 (IL4) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) as well as SAP workloads. The environment currently includes relational database platforms, Microsoft SQL Server, and AWS Relational Database Service (RDS).

The Data Architect will lead the development and execution of a modern data architecture strategy that improves scalability, resiliency, security, automation, interoperability, and operational efficiency for both structured and unstructured data assets across the DARPA environment. A central focus of the role is guiding the transition from infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)-based database deployments to secure, containerized and platform-oriented data solutions where operationally appropriate while also rationalizing and organizing disparate data sources (including legacy databases, file shares, and ad hoc research data stores) into governed, cataloged, and analytically usable forms.

Help us solve problems with Innovation Through Intelligence.

• Develop and maintain the target-state data architecture, roadmap, standards, and reference patterns for DARPA ITD multi-cloud environments.
• Assess existing relational database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server and AWS RDS as well as other data stores such as shared file systems and ad hoc research repositories, and develop modernization recommendations for performance, availability, security, lifecycle management, and cost optimization.
• Design secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient data solutions supporting AWS, Azure, IL4, and IL6 environments.
• Lead architecture decisions related to database modernization, containerized database platforms, managed database services, data replication, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cross-environment data integration including patterns for integrating data from legacy file shares and heterogeneous research data sources into enterprise data platforms.
• Define architectural patterns for transitioning appropriate database workloads from traditional IaaS deployments to container-based solutions, including Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Establish data architecture standards for database provisioning, configuration management, schema management, data lifecycle management, encryption, auditing, logging, monitoring, and operational support.
• Partners with cloud architects, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure engineers, application teams, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, and program stakeholders to align data solutions with enterprise architecture and mission requirements.
• Ensure data platform designs support applicable DoW cybersecurity, risk-management, security-control, identity, access-control, logging, and continuous-monitoring requirements.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and repeatable deployment patterns for database and data-platform services.
• Evaluate commercial cloud-native, open-source, and government-approved data technologies; prepare technical recommendations, trade studies, decision papers, and…