Data Architect

VT Group (VTG); McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

VT Group (VTG) seeks an experienced Data Architect in McLean, VA to support data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks across data engineering, security, DevOps, applications, data science, and program management. You will design scalable data architectures and collaborate with stakeholders across teams.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Spark, Presto), SQL/NoSQL, ETL pipelines, and data integration with industry-standard systems.

Qualifications

• Cloud infrastructure and data management experience.
• Experience with AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Presto, SQL and NoSQL.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure and data management.
• Demonstrated experience with multiple OS environments (Windows, Linux, and MacOS).
• Demonstrated experience with cloud environments, including AWS.
• Experience with Hadoop HDFS, Cloudera, Spark, Presto, SQL and NoSQL.
• Experience conducting data processing activities.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience building and executing ETL pipelines.
• Experience integrating data flows with industry standard systems such as Niagara Falls.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience providing clear and concise communications for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Cloud architecture

ETL development

Python

Data integration

Communication

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Presto

SQL

NoSQL

Neo4j

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect within a team supporting the customer with data engineering and operations, software engineering, security engineering, DevOps engineering, application development, data science, and program management in support of data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks. Communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams, Customer staff and external stakeholders.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect within a team supporting the customer with data engineering and operations, software engineering, security engineering, DevOps engineering, application development, data science, and program management in support of data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks. Communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams, Customer staff and external stakeholders.

What will you do?

• Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure and data management.
• 2. Demonstrated experience with multiple OS environments including Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• 3. Demonstrated experience with cloud environments, including AWS.
• 4. Demonstrated experience with development environments including AWS, Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS), Cloudera, Spark, Presto, SQL, and NoSQL.
• 5. Demonstrated experience conducting data processing activities.
• 6. Experience working with Python
• 7. Demonstrated experience building executing ETL pipelines
• 8. Demonstrated experience with integrating data flows with industry standard systems such as Niagra Falls
• 9. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and be a proactive problem solver
• 10. Experience providing clear and concise communications for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Do you have what it takes?

• Knowledge of targeting workflows, tools and environments
• 2. Experience with Large Language Models and agentic workflows.
• 3. Experience with graphical databases such as Neo4J
• 4. Experience working with a hard target mission area.

Pay Range

VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $180,000-$240,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.