Enterprise Data Architect

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at

We are seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to join our embedded team at the client site in Northern Virginia. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining and implementing enterprise data architectures and data governance frameworks that leverage Collibra, support robust metadata management, and integrate with modern cloud data platforms and ingestion pipelines. The architect will play a key role in enabling trusted, well-governed data for mission-critical analytics and decision-making in a classified environment.

This is a highly technical position; individuals will be screened by peers through a technical review of skills and experience.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

• Define and implement enterprise data governance frameworks using Collibra.
• Ensure data cataloging, data lineage, and data stewardship are established and maintained within Collibra.
• Work with business and IT teams to define and enforce data policies, standards, and ownership.
• Design and maintain enterprise metadata models and ensure metadata tagging aligns with Collibra configurations.
• Oversee data classification, business glossaries, and data dictionaries within Collibra.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure consistent and accurate master data across systems and domains.
• Define data models, standards, and principles for both structured and unstructured data.
• Develop data integration strategies to align disparate data sources with governance and architectural frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, and applicable federal standards.
• Partner with the Chief Data Office, Data Stewards, Engineers, and Analysts to ensure data is usable, trusted, and well documented.
• Provide technical guidance on how Collibra integrates with data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS.
• Train and support business users on self-service data discovery and stewardship using Collibra.
• Work closely with Data Architects and Data Stewards to ensure proper metadata integration and governance automation in Collibra.
• Automate metadata ingestion and data lineage tracking using Collibra Edge Server and Collibra APIs.
• Support data classification, tagging, and cataloging to enhance data discoverability and reuse.
• Optimize backend services, integrations, and data flows for scalability, performance, and security.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, LDAP) to secure access to data and metadata.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations (for example, GDPR, CCPA, FedRAMP) across data ingestion and management solutions.
• Work in Agile (Scrum or Kanban) teams and support Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines (for example, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline).
• Provide technical guidance on best practices for integrating Collibra Edge Server with enterprise data platforms and pipelines.
• Collaborate with CDO, Data Governance, and Engineering teams to improve data quality, ingestion efficiency, and metadata management.
• Leverage AI and ML capabilities within Collibra and related tools for data quality monitoring and anomaly detection.
• Automate metadata ingestion, data lineage, and governance processes to improve efficiency and consistency.

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data governance, or closely related roles.
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise data architectures and governance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Collibra for data cataloging, lineage, stewardship, business glossaries, and governance workflows.
• Strong background in metadata management and master data management across complex…