Data Fabric & Mesh Architect - Enterprise Data Strategy

Insight Global; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Day-one medical/dental/vision

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Data Fabric-Mesh Architect to lead DHS enterprise data architecture, governance, and adoption initiatives. You will guide technical strategy for Databricks, data platforms, and data sharing, while coordinating with DHS leadership and delivery teams to drive enterprise adoption.

The role requires hands-on data engineering experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate mission needs into practical architecture and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years progressively responsible experience in data architecture, data engineering, data-platform engineering, cloud data solutions, or related technical roles.
• Experience serving as a technical lead/architect for enterprise-scale data initiatives.
• Experience supporting data-fabric, data-mesh, enterprise data-sharing, or governance adoption within a large organization.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data models, and cloud data solutions.
• Strong familiarity with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, data governance, and lakehouse concepts.
• Experience with Python/SQL or similar data-engineering technologies.
• Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, QuickSight) and data catalogs.
• Understanding of data lakehouse, data fabric, data mesh, metadata, lineage, and governance concepts.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud or other cloud data platforms.
• Experience with data-ingestion, orchestration, streaming, APIs, and analytics consumption patterns.
• Able to translate mission needs into practical technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture principles, reference architectures, implementation patterns, and roadmaps.
• Ensure the data-fabric strategy aligns with the broader DHS data ecosystem including legacy platforms and cloud environments.
• Advise on practical adoption of data mesh and data-fabric concepts like data products and metadata standards.
• Provide technical recommendations balancing quick wins with long-term scalability, security, and governance.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, scientists, and delivery teams to review designs and establish reusable patterns.
• Support architecture reviews, data-modeling discussions, and proof-of-concept efforts.
• Evaluate emerging data and analytics capabilities to improve data sharing and mission outcomes.
• Communicate complex concepts to senior nontechnical stakeholders and technical teams.
• Contribute to executive briefings, architecture decision records, and adoption plans.
• Mentor team members to raise data architecture maturity.

Skills

DHS EOD clearance

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/engineering

7+ years data architecture

Lead architect for enterprise data

Data-fabric/data-mesh adoption

Data pipelines/ETL/ELT

Databricks familiarity

Python/SQL

BI tools (Tableau/Power BI/QuickSight)

Data governance tools (OpenMetadata/Co

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Apache Spark

Tableau

Power BI

OpenMetadata

Collibra

Kafka

Airflow

AWS Glue

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Data Fabric-Mesh Architect to lead DHS enterprise data architecture, governance, and adoption initiatives. You will guide technical strategy for Databricks, data platforms, and data sharing, while coordinating with DHS leadership and delivery teams to drive enterprise adoption.

The role requires hands-on data engineering experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate mission needs into practical architecture and roadmaps.