Senior Azure Data Architect: Government Cloud & Security

Spn-Solutions-Inc.; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage with dental andVision

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Tuition and professional development

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

SPN Solutions in Fairfax, VA is seeking a senior data/AI architect to extend an Azure Government AI platform across multiple offices. You will own the technical design, integrate case files, and ensure strict access controls as part of a three-person core team.

Hybrid work in Fairfax with occasional DC travel is expected. The role requires 12+ years in tech, cloud/data architecture, Azure AZ-305 proficiency, Python, PostgreSQL/SQL Server, and hands-on production experience with citation-enabled

Qualifications

• United States citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust Tier 2 determination.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• 12+ years in technology, 8+ in cloud and data architecture.
• Azure architecture at the level of AZ-305, by certification or by equivalent hands‑on work.
• At least one document question-answering application with citations that you put into production, on Azure OpenAI or an equivalent
• PostgreSQL or SQL Server at the level of writing row-level security policies.
• Python
• CI/CD in GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design of every product and record each design decision in the agency repository.
• Register each office's case tables and document sets as sources, with a freshness expectation for each.
• Check every document for a native text layer and send only image pages to OCR.
• Hold pages below the agreed OCR confidence in a review queue instead of indexing them.
• Split text on headings, numbered paragraphs, exhibits and pages, and tag every chunk with its document, page, case, owning office and role scope.
• Keep the index current from the change stream, removing deleted, withdrawn and redacted material explicitly.
• Configure hybrid lexical and vector retrieval with rank fusion, suppress any sentence without a supporting source, and refuse when the evidence is weak.
• Compile each user's identity claims into a mandatory filter on every vector query, and write PostgreSQL row-level security and field masking by role.
• Write an audit record for every retrieval and export
• Measure retrieval recall, citation precision, groundedness, refusal correctness and access correctness against the agency's test set at every acceptance test
• Build the CI/CD path that promotes dbt, Python and Superset assets from dev to test to production, with a probe that checks upstream schema and credentials before every scheduled run
• Supply the configuration evidence and test results behind the NIST SP 800-53 control statements, and fix penetration-test findings on what we build

Skills

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Azure

Azure OpenAI

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

dbt

Superset

Job description

SPN Solutions in Fairfax, VA is seeking a senior data/AI architect to extend an Azure Government AI platform across multiple offices. You will own the technical design, integrate case files, and ensure strict access controls as part of a three-person core team.

Hybrid work in Fairfax with occasional DC travel is expected. The role requires 12+ years in tech, cloud/data architecture, Azure AZ-305 proficiency, Python, PostgreSQL/SQL Server, and hands-on production experience with citation-enabled