Data Architect & Lead Engineer — Secret Clearance

Thinktekllc; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

PTO and paid leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

ThinkTek LLC in the United States seeks an experienced Data Architect and Lead Data Engineer to define and implement a secure, traceable data foundation for enterprise performance reporting. This hands-on role owns architecture, data models, source mappings, ETL pipelines, APIs, and deployment decisions for government review.

You will lead technical reviews, write and review production code, enforce security and monitoring practices, and coordinate with data owners and government authorities to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in data architecture, systems integration, or data engineering.
• Experience designing data architectures, models, mappings, and integrations across complex source systems.
• Strong SQL and programming skills with hands-on data pipelines and API development.
• Experience with secure data solutions in regulated environments and knowledge of DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Assess source systems and define supporting data architecture, models, mappings and lineage.
• Translate business measures into technical requirements, validation rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Design, develop, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot secure ETL pipelines and APIs.
• Develop production-quality SQL and code for data integration and API services.
• Apply security, testing, configuration-management, deployment, monitoring, and recovery practices throughout the lifecycle.
• Lead technical reviews and coordinate decisions with Government authorities and data owners.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

SQL

APIs

ETL pipelines

Security controls

Code reviews

Deployment & monitoring

Requirements translation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field

Job description

ThinkTek LLC in the United States seeks an experienced Data Architect and Lead Data Engineer to define and implement a secure, traceable data foundation for enterprise performance reporting. This hands-on role owns architecture, data models, source mappings, ETL pipelines, APIs, and deployment decisions for government review.

You will lead technical reviews, write and review production code, enforce security and monitoring practices, and coordinate with data owners and government authorities to