Federal Solution Architect

Collibra Public Sector; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Collibra Public Sector seeks a Federal Engagement Manager to lead architectural design and delivery for U.S. federal agencies.

You will ensure compliance with federal security standards, and partner across Sales, Product and Support to align solutions with agency modernization goals. The role requires active TS Poly clearance, on-site presence in Chantilly, VA, and 3+ years in federal consulting focused on data governance or data management.

Qualifications

• Active TS Poly Lifestyle security clearance is required.
• Located in Chantilly, Virginia or surrounding area.
• Willing to be on site 100% of the time.
• 3+ years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies in Data Governance or Data Management.
• Understanding of leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms used by federal agencies.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with cloud platforms, network-based API integration (REST/JSON), and deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure and platform.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mission-aligned architectural design and execution of Collibra products for federal engagements.
• Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud and delivery processes.
• Provide tailored data governance strategies for federal agencies.
• Collaborate with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support and Exec teams.
• Identify opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint by aligning product capabilities to agency mandates and modernization.
• Meet utilization goals to support federal client success and repeatable delivery excellence.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Management

Cloud platforms

REST/JSON API integration

AWS/Azure

Kubernetes

Big data (Spark/Hadoop)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

REST/JSON

Data Lakes

Data Warehousing

Job description

At Collibra Public Sector, our Professional Services team relies on Federal Solution Architects to deliver on customer expectations for the services we sell, working directly with customer key projects stakeholders throughout the entire customer journey. Ensuring growth, adoption and renewal, Federal Solution Architects act as customer champions, ensuring customers are onboarded and realizing value rapidly.

Federal Engagement Managers are responsible for:

• Supporting federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned architectural design and execution of Collibra products that adhere to Collibra Public Sector’s Delivery Models, Engagement Processes, Methodologies, and Artifacts, while ensuring compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
• Providing federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
• Partnering cross-functionally with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to ensure alignment with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identifying opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities to evolving agency mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
• Meeting or exceeding utilization goals in support of federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
• Contributing to the growth of Collibra’s public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.

Required Qualifications:

• Because this role supports the U.S. government, it is required that this candidate holds active TS Poly Lifestyle security clearance.
• Located in Chantilly, Virginia or the surrounding area.
• Willing to be on site 100% of the time.
• 3+ years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies with knowledge in the areas of Data Governance or Data Management.
• An understanding of the leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with cloud platforms, network-based API integration (REST/JSON), and deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure and platform.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, and Hadoop.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity in enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and/or Job Control tools.
• Knowledgeable of at least least two or three of the following: data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, and business rules management
• Proficiency in leveraging APIs via Java, Python, or similar scripting language for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, data integration.
• Skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experienced with Collibra or comparable technologies.

You are:

• An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders and able to tailor to different audiences.
• Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
• Masterful at troubleshooting, navigating, and facilitating resolution of challenging client connectivity and technical software issues.
• Self-starting and interested in learning new software skills to support intricacies of Collibra’s application stack.
• Able to work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges, advocating for the importance of preserving data governance and quality.
• Able to lead blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.

Measures of Success:

• Within the first 30 days of employment, be able to
• Present the services offering to your manager understanding the different deliverables and the value provided.
• Present the Customer Journey framework to your manager understanding the different phases and roles and responsibilities within each phase.
• Clearily understand the roles and responsibilities of all delivery personnel including an Engagement Manager, Solution Architect, Account Program Manager, Premium Support Engineer, Sales Engineer and Account Executive.
• Work with the account team to build project plans aligned to each assigned account.
• Have a baseline understanding of the Collibra product and associated features.
• Within the first 60 days of employment
• Clearly understand and present the functions and features of the product with your manager.
• Show an intermediate understanding of the product with the ability to architect solutions.
• Within the first 90 days of employment be able to
• Execute on customer project plans based on product knowledge for assigned customers.
• Understand and convey to customers how Collibra's suite product capabilities and the projects being delivered provide value to customers.
• Design architectural solutions aligned with customer initiatives.