Data Architect

Overview

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee‑owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data architectures that support NCIS investigative, intelligence, and operational missions.
• Develop and manage conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support structured, semi‑structured, and unstructured data.
• Establish and enforce data standards, naming conventions, and interoperability frameworks, including NIEM Open.
• Architect cloud‑native and hybrid data solutions supporting on‑premises and DON virtual private cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain data governance frameworks, including data stewardship, metadata management, and data quality controls.
• Ensure compliance with CJIS, NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, Privacy Act, CUI, and DoD/DON data policies.
• Design secure data access controls using least privilege principles, encryption, masking, and data loss prevention mechanisms.
• Support data integration strategies, including data lakes, data warehouses, federation, and real‑time data exchange solutions.
• Maintain an enterprise data catalog to improve data discoverability, transparency, and governance.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure architectures support machine learning, analytics, and reporting.
• Optimize data platform performance through indexing, partitioning, query optimization, and scalable cloud architectures.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Support enterprise architecture initiatives and provide technical recommendations to government leadership.
• Operate within secure facilities, including Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs), and collaborate closely with government stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity personnel, and enterprise architects.

• Active Top Secret clearance eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information access.
• Ability to obtain SCI adjudication within six (6) months.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data engineering.
• Proven experience designing enterprise‑scale data architectures in regulated or classified environments.
• Experience supporting law enforcement, intelligence, or DoD organizations is highly preferred.
• Hands‑on experience with hybrid cloud and cloud‑native architectures, multiple operating systems, and containerization techniques, preferably in Microsoft Azure.
• Experience integrating data across multiple systems, agencies, and security domains.

• Data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Enterprise data architecture frameworks
• Data lakes, data warehouses, and hybrid data platforms
• Metadata management and data catalog solutions
• Data integration and federation strategies
• SQL and No
  
  SQL database technologies
• Performance optimization techniques
• Data security, encryption, masking, and access controls
• Familiarity with NIEM, CJIS, NIST, and DoW data standards

• Experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure data services.
• Familiarity with DoW and DON data strategies.
• Experience supporting machine learning and analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust data access principles.
• Experience developing data governance policies and enterprise data standards.
• Strong documentation, briefing, and stakeholder communication skills.