AI-First Enterprise Data Architect for Real-Time ATC Mesh

Leidos; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, supporting the L-CAP hybrid cloud data mesh. You will lead enterprise data architecture for real-time air traffic management and AI-enabled engineering practices across legacy and modern systems.

This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite and 2 remote, with work locations in Gaithersburg MD, Egg Harbor Township NJ, or Eagan MN.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant data architecture experience or 10+ years with a Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Enterprise data architecture leadership for large-scale platforms.
• Data mesh architecture design and implementation experience.
• Data governance framework development and enforcement.
• Event streaming expertise (Apache Kafka or equivalent) at scale.
• Real-time data pipeline design for mission-critical applications.
• Expertise across SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Distributed data systems architecture and performance optimization.
• Advanced data modeling for complex operational domains.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; US citizenship required; subject to government background investigation.
• Experience with real-time data processing architectures and low-latency streaming systems.
• Knowledge of operational data semantics in complex system environments.
• Experience with schema governance, data contracts, and data lineage implementation.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer.

Responsibilities

• Define the data mesh architecture including domain boundaries and data products.
• Establish the enterprise data governance framework and standards.
• Design real-time streaming data pipelines for operational aviation data.
• Architect event-driven data integration patterns across platform services.
• Define data product standards including contracts, quality, and discoverability.
• Develop the data integration strategy across legacy and modern systems.
• Plan and oversee legacy data migration to the new platform architecture.
• Establish data quality standards, monitoring, and remediation processes.
• Coordinate cross-ART data architecture decisions and dependencies.
• Implement metadata management and data cataloging solutions.
• Define data architecture for operational ATC data including real-time processing pipelines and low-latency data access patterns.
• Establish schema governance and data contract management ensuring interoperability across modernized and legacy services.
• Design latency management strategies for time-critical ATC data flows supporting real-time operational decisions.
• Implement data lineage tracking providing traceability from source operational systems through processing to consumption.
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture by identifying and applying AI-assisted development capabilities, automation, and emerging software engineering practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and delivery.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Data mesh design

Data governance framework

Event streaming (Kafka)

Real-time data pipelines

SQL/NoSQL

Distributed data systems

Data modeling

Cloud-native data services

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS/Azure cloud services

Graph databases

Job description

Leidos is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, supporting the L-CAP hybrid cloud data mesh. You will lead enterprise data architecture for real-time air traffic management and AI-enabled engineering practices across legacy and modern systems.

This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite and 2 remote, with work locations in Gaithersburg MD, Egg Harbor Township NJ, or Eagan MN.