Senior Data Architect

TS/SCI - CI Poly

Onsite in Chantilly Virginia

We offer 2 employee compensation models. Salaried or consultant (w2). Salaries start at 220k and w2 consultant starts at 120 an hour. Salary and/or Hourly rates will increase with experience. Benefits are available such as Health/Dental/Vision/401K/EAP/Life insurance and LTD-STD

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing a robust data infrastructure that ensures data provenance, pedigree, and governance. This role will focus on enabling seamless data access, storage, cataloging, and search capabilities across a multi-component architecture, while also playing a key role in designing a modernized data layer.

The Data Architect will lead efforts to implement search federation, fully integrated workflow management systems, and structured data optimization, driving innovation and operational efficiency across the organization.

• Define and implement strategies for data provenance and data pedigree, ensuring data integrity, traceability, and compliance with regulatory and organizational standards.
• Develop and enforce data governance frameworks, policies, and best practices to ensure data quality, security, and consistency across systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish and maintain metadata standards and comprehensive documentation for data lineage and usage.

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance data architecture solutions to support organizational needs, including data access, storage, cataloging, and search capabilities across a multi-component system.
• Architect and implement a modernized data layer that supports seamless data integration, transformation, and consumption for analytics and operational applications.
• Lead the development and deployment of search federation solutions to enable unified querying across disparate data sources.
• Establish and maintain systems for data cataloging and metadata management, improving the discoverability, accessibility, and usability of organizational data.

• Design and oversee the implementation of fully integrated workflow management systems to automate and streamline data pipelines and processes.
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, and business stakeholders to ensure workflows are aligned with organizational objectives and operational requirements.
• Drive the development of end-to-end workflows for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics.

• Lead efforts to design and optimize systems for managing structured data, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Develop strategies for integrating structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, enabling a holistic view of organizational data for analytics and reporting.
• Evaluate and implement modern tools and methodologies for structured data modeling, database optimization, and query performance tuning.

• Partner with data scientists, engineers, software architects, and business analysts to align data architecture with organizational goals.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, promoting best practices in data architecture and governance.
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in data architecture, data management, and analytics, and integrate innovative solutions into the organization’s data strategy.

• Bachelor's or Master’s…