Chief Enterprise Architect

Integral Federal, Inc.; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Earned Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Chief Enterprise Architect to lead the design, scalability, and integration of ONR’s data ecosystem. You will drive cloud-based architecture, data governance, ML/AI integration, and secure access across IL5 environments.

Expect collaboration with ONR stakeholders and formal architecture documentation. Responsibilities include establishing a data governance board, implementing IAM and data catalogs, and delivering real-time dashboards and APIs.

Qualifications

• Ten years designing scalable, secure enterprise systems in a cloud environment.
• Lead architect for data integration, ETL/ELT, OLAP/OLTP, and data models.
• Cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or Azure SA Expert).
• Experience documenting architecture via formal artifacts and roadmaps.
• Active Secret Clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Provide data and technical expertise to ONR’s data analytics mission.
• Acquire and curate S&T data, automate reports, and configure dashboards.
• Establish data quality program with profiling, cleansing, and stewardship.
• Develop ML/AI models, NLP for unstructured text, and analytics platforms.
• Implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time data processing pipelines.
• Manage access, metadata, and data cataloging under governance.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data modeling

ETL/ELT design

Data governance

Security clearance

Education

MA/MS in computer science or IT related degree

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Apache Kafka

AWS Kinesis

SageMaker

AzureML

AWS

Azure

Job description

Overview

The Chief Enterprise Architect is the ultimate technical authority responsible for the design, scalability, and integration of the entire data ecosystem, ensuring the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Comptroller’s Office Data and Analytics (D&A) Division architecture meets all requirement.

Responsibilities

• Provide the data and technical expertise to support ONR’s data and analytics mission.
• Identify, acquire, and curate relevant commercial S&T data sets, such as S&T publications, grants, patents, startup investment activities, company details, and informal S&T literature. directly engage with ONR’s expert analysts to answer strategic questions, automate reports, and configure dashboards to provide real-time insight into global research trends.
• Directly engage with ONR’s expert analysts to answer strategic questions, automate reports, and configure dashboards to provide real-time insight into global research trends.
• Establish a robust data quality program encompassing data profiling, cleansing, enrichment, and stewardship. maintain metadata, data lineage, and data dictionaries using enterprise-grade tools and shall develop and deploy advanced analytics, dashboards, and AI/ML models in collaboration with ONR stakeholders.
• Provide onboarding, training, and ongoing support for analytics platforms, fostering a data-literate workforce.
• Establish and support a Data Governance Board to oversee data policies, standards, and compliance are required, as is the maintenance of continuous feedback loops with end-users and leadership for iterative improvement.
• Design, deploy, and operate all data and applications within a cloud environment authorized at the FedRAMP High baseline and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5), and maintain the system’s Authority to Operate (ATO) at all times lo include configuration management, security patching, system monitoring, and help desk support.
• Design the architecture for scalability to accommodate future growth in data volume and user load.
• Implement and sustain secure data access mechanisms, including Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and user interfaces for data exploration, as well as a secure Bulk Data Download capability for authorized users.
• Manage all access mechanisms under a formal data governance framework, including metadata management and data cataloging. develop and deploy machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze unstructured text and the integration of AI/ML platforms (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning)
• Automate infrastructure and workflows using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), build and manage CI/CD pipelines for secure software deployment, and develop streaming data pipelines (e.g., using Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis) for real-time data processing.

Qualifications

Required:

• MA/MS with a Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or IT related degree with 10 years experience
• Ten (10) years of experience designing scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise-level systems, with at least five (5) of those years focused specifically ondata-intensive solutions in a cloud environment.
• Five (5) years of hands‑ondata modeling experience, including the creation of both logical and physical data models.
• Verifiable project experience serving as the lead architect fordata integration and ETL/ELT processes, as well as designing both Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems.
• A professional-level cloud architect certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
• Experience serving as the lead technical authority responsible for creating and maintaining formal architecture documentation (e.g., system views, technical roadmaps) for a complex data ecosystem.
• Secret Clearance

Salary range: $195,000 - $230,000

This position is in the proposal stage. The above salary range represents a general guideline. Integral Federal considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers, such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and/or discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay.

Company Overview

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure.

Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k). Give us a try and become part of a curated group of professionals at Integral Federal!

Our package also includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability