AI‑First Enterprise Data Architect — Real‑Time Data Mesh

Leidos; United States; 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 L-CAP, a hybrid cloud data mesh platform for real-time aviation data and AI-enabled development.

You will define data mesh architecture, governance, data product standards, design real-time pipelines, and coordinate data integration across legacy and modern systems. Hybrid work with 3 onsite/2 remote; citizenship and public trust required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of 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.

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 mesh architecture

Event streaming

Real-time data pipelines

Data governance

SQL/NoSQL

Data modeling

AI-first development

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12+ years

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

NoSQL databases

SQL databases

Job description

Leidos is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, supporting L-CAP, a hybrid cloud data mesh platform for real-time aviation data and AI-enabled development.

You will define data mesh architecture, governance, data product standards, design real-time pipelines, and coordinate data integration across legacy and modern systems. Hybrid work with 3 onsite/2 remote; citizenship and public trust required.