Junior Solution Architect - Data & Cloud for Defense

Arenatechnologies; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Intrepid, a trusted SPA company, seeks a Junior Solution Architect to support the Defense Health Agency and DoD by building an enterprise data orchestration layer that integrates data across diverse systems. You will help design scalable data pipelines, APIs, and data products to improve access and usability of health information.

You will translate mission needs into technical requirements, document current systems and data flows, and collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure alignment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Support the design of data and technology solutions spanning cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments.
• Work with architects and engineers to translate mission needs into clear technical requirements and designs.
• Assist with documenting current systems, data flows, integrations, constraints, and modernization opportunities.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, interface documentation, decision records, and other technical materials.
• Research technologies and technical approaches and summarize findings, benefits, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Learn and apply established reference architectures, integration patterns, technical standards, and engineering practices.
• Participate in technical discovery sessions, design discussions, demonstrations, and customer meetings.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Technical Leads to resolve questions and keep implementation work aligned with solution designs.
• Communicate progress, questions, technical concepts, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Represent SPA as a thoughtful, dependable, and curious technical partner while building trusted relationships across the customer ecosystem.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

Software development

Documentation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

SQL

Java

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Spark

Tableau

Git

Job description

Intrepid, a trusted SPA company, seeks a Junior Solution Architect to support the Defense Health Agency and DoD by building an enterprise data orchestration layer that integrates data across diverse systems. You will help design scalable data pipelines, APIs, and data products to improve access and usability of health information.

You will translate mission needs into technical requirements, document current systems and data flows, and collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure alignment with