Data Architecture, Advisor

Peraton is searching for a Data Architect to work remotely in the Washington DC Metro area, with occasional travel to the Quantico client site as required.

What you’ll do

Provides architectural leadership and advisory support for mission application planning, strategy, capability maturity, and target-state definition across the program.

Helps define prioritization and sequencing for application development and integration by proposing strategic roadmaps that align customer needs with best-in-class technology.

Experiences designing and building Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and scalable data platforms in the cloud.

Builds data pipelines and warehouses as part of data engineering responsibilities.

Uses APIs to push and pull data from various systems and platforms.

Supports and oversees technical activities across the contract, mentors technical staff, and drives continuous improvement and innovation into program operations.

Advises senior leaders on technology alternatives related to processing, data storage, data access, application development, and enterprise architecture decisions.

Requires strong enterprise architecture experience, AWS solutions architecture knowledge, and security-by-design awareness in the application development lifecycle.

Proficiency with AI assisted software development, AWS Step Functions to orchestrate complex workflows.

Familiarity with tools such as Informatica and AWS services.

Experience with Java, SQL, Scala, Python, schema definition, and software engineering best practices including secure, testable, and maintainable code and databases (eg SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis).

Knowledge of packaging, curating, and versioning datasets for model training jobs on Bedrock and SageMaker.

Enforces CUI handling requirements, automates PII detection, and maintains audit trails (e.g., Amazon Macie).

Qualifications

Education: 8 years of experience or a BS/BA, 6 years with an MS/MA, 3 years with a PhD, or 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Active Secret clearance.

Leads enterprise data architecture strategy, target state definition, and roadmap planning across complex mission programs.

Advises senior leaders on data storage, access, security, and technology selection decisions supporting architecture and modernization objectives.

Mentors staff and drives innovation, risk informed decision making, and continuous improvement across architecture and delivery teams.

Strong expertise in AWS architecture, security in the SDLC, and communication of technical risk and architecture decisions to executive audiences.

Good understanding of distributed systems, data integration techniques (ETL vs. federation), database optimization (partitioning, indexing), and relational database performance tuning.

Excellent listening, interpersonal, communication, and problem solving skills.

Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams, in both a lead and support role.

Local to the Washington DC Metro Area (highly preferred).

Compensation

Salary range: $112,000 - $179,000. Salary may include overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay, depending on qualifications and business and contract considerations.

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Position Category: Information Technology

Clearance: Secret

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