Federal Data Architect & Lead Engineer - Secure Pipelines

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

Job summary

ThinkTek LLC seeks an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to define and implement a secure, traceable foundation for enterprise performance reporting. You will own architecture, data models, mappings, and lineage, and build ETL pipelines and APIs connecting source systems to BI platforms.

You will lead technical reviews, write production code, and present architecture and security decisions for government approval, with a focus on secure data solutions in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data architecture, systems integration, data engineering, or related field.
• Experience designing data architectures, data models, mappings, and integrations across complex source systems.
• Strong SQL and programming skills, with hands-on experience developing data pipelines, APIs, or other integration solutions.
• Experience implementing secure data solutions in Federal, regulated, or similarly controlled environments.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including source control, code review, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and recovery.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements, resolve complex data and integration issues, and explain technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data architecture

Systems integration

Data engineering

SQL

APIs

Security

Software development practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or another relevant technical field

Tools

SQL Tools

Job description

ThinkTek LLC seeks an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to define and implement a secure, traceable foundation for enterprise performance reporting. You will own architecture, data models, mappings, and lineage, and build ETL pipelines and APIs connecting source systems to BI platforms.

You will lead technical reviews, write production code, and present architecture and security decisions for government approval, with a focus on secure data solutions in regulated environments.