Data Fabric & Mesh Architect - Enterprise Data Leader

Strategic ACI; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic ACI seeks a Senior Data Architect/Engineer to design, build, and govern the Enterprise Data Layer of a Digital Engineering Ecosystem supporting NGA. You will own Data Fabric and Data Mesh, APIs, and governance across domains, leading major program workstreams under time and budget constraints.

This senior engineering role requires hands-on experience with diverse databases and data pipelines, strong API skills, and the ability to deliver quality artifacts for release across the

Qualifications

• Active TS clearance, with SCI eligibility and CI polygraph within 30 days.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of data architecture/engineering experience, including enterprise-scale data integration.
• Hands-on experience with relational, graph, and/or vector databases (PostgreSQL, Neo4j, pgvector) and data pipeline orchestration (Argo Workflows, Airflow).
• Experience designing data mesh/data fabric architectures, metadata cataloging, and search infrastructure (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch).
• Strong API design experience using OpenAPI/REST standards and integration with cloud or on-prem data lakes.

Responsibilities

• Design and stand up the enterprise Data Fabric and Data Mesh as the authoritative control point for engineering data.
• Develop and maintain the data model, metadata model, ontology, schemas, and translation services.
• Build and operate data pipelines integrating relational, vector, and graph databases, search, and catalog capabilities.
• Implement standardized APIs (OpenAPI/REST) and data lake integration to enable secure data sharing.
• Deliver dashboards and portfolio management views supporting EA & BI stakeholder needs.
• Support governance controls for data consistency and lifecycle across programs.
• Produce release-based deliverables including deployment source code and schema artifacts.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data integration

API design

Data mesh

Data fabric

Kubernetes familiarity

OpenAPI/REST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Data Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

Neo4j

pgvector

Argo Workflows

Airflow

OpenSearch

OpenMetadata

Job description

Strategic ACI seeks a Senior Data Architect/Engineer to design, build, and govern the Enterprise Data Layer of a Digital Engineering Ecosystem supporting NGA. You will own Data Fabric and Data Mesh, APIs, and governance across domains, leading major program workstreams under time and budget constraints.

This senior engineering role requires hands-on experience with diverse databases and data pipelines, strong API skills, and the ability to deliver quality artifacts for release across the