Senior Cloud Data Architect: FedRAMP Lakehouse (Remote)

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Health Savings Account

Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Architect SME to lead the data engineering foundation for a federal data migration program. Remote work is available, focused on designing end-to-end data lakehouse architectures using Databricks and Delta Live Tables within a FedRAMP-compliant AWS cloud environment.

The role emphasizes ETL design, schema harmonization, data quality frameworks, and metadata management to ensure a unified ESA dataset across multiple agencies.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required; must have ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Extensive experience in cloud data architecture with Databricks and Delta Lake/Delta Live Tables.
• Experience designing data lakehouse architectures for large-scale data migration programs.
• Experience with schema harmonization, ETL pipeline design, and data quality frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of FedRAMP, FISMA, and federal cloud compliance.
• Experience with metadata management and authoritative source registry design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cloud data lakehouse architecture design for federal species data ingestion.
• Design the Delta Live Tables ETL pipeline topology, data flow, transformations, and error handling.
• Lead schema harmonization and mapping documentation.
• Define metadata standards for ingested datasets and source attribution.
• Design the Metadata and Authoritative Source Registry structure.
• Oversee ETL pipeline development and deployment with version control and peer reviews.
• Design data quality validation frameworks within ETL pipelines.
• Produce the Data Model Harmonization Report for government review.
• Lead operational handoff and documentation for routine data refresh and monitoring.
• Provide cloud data architecture guidance for FedRAMP-compliant deployment.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

ETL pipelines

Data quality

FedRAMP compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree

Associates degree

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Architect SME to lead the data engineering foundation for a federal data migration program. Remote work is available, focused on designing end-to-end data lakehouse architectures using Databricks and Delta Live Tables within a FedRAMP-compliant AWS cloud environment.

The role emphasizes ETL design, schema harmonization, data quality frameworks, and metadata management to ensure a unified ESA dataset across multiple agencies.