Senior Data Architect

Hunter Strategy; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Strategy is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define the enterprise data strategy for a new federal civilian program. You will partner with the Chief Enterprise Architect and the Solution Architect to set data standards across a microservices, database-per-service architecture and a centralized data lake/warehousing layer.

The role involves guiding data governance, API design alignment, and data lifecycle strategies while coordinating with multiple development teams in a SAFe

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data architecture or enterprise data management experience.
• Experience with microservice data patterns, including database-per-service designs.
• Comfort across Big Data, ETL and ELT pipelines, data warehousing, analytics and BI related systems.
• Experience supporting a SAFe environment or a large portfolio of concurrent development teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Chief Enterprise Architect and the Solution Architect to determine the program's enterprise architecture.
• Design and govern the foundational enterprise data strategy and governance plan.
• Define data standards and patterns for a microservices, database-per-service architecture.
• Guide data scope for each service and ensure resilient, well-scoped data practices.
• Define the data lake/warehousing strategy and analytics system for reporting.
• Establish data lifecycle policies considering scaling and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data management

Microservice data patterns

Big Data

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data warehousing

Data analytics

Business intelligence

SAFe environment

Job description

Senior Data Architect

Hunter Strategy has a unique philosophy to technical project delivery. We treat all our customers like mission partners because they rely on our team to meet their objectives through complex software engineering, cloud operations, and cyber risk management solutions. Hunter Strategy was founded on the premise that IT is 21st century infrastructure - critically important but only instrumentally valuable. Accordingly, our teams look at problems with a single objective: the identification and enablement of the right capability to address the most vexing problems our Mission Partners face. We continue to support our partners' success by leveraging the right technology, with the right plan, and the right team to address tomorrow's challenges today.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 annually

About the Role

Hunter Strategy is seeking a Senior Data Architect to support a new mission with a large federal civilian agency. This role has a single purpose. You work alongside the Chief Enterprise Architect and the Solution Architect to determine the enterprise architecture for a new, greenfield program, and you own the data dimension of that work.

The program runs on centralized federal data with a database-per-service pattern. Each service owns its data store and its schema, and each deploys on its own schedule. Coherence across an ecosystem of this size comes from the standards you set, with API contracts holding the line at service boundaries and a consolidated data lake and warehousing layer bringing service data together for analytics and reporting. A large number of development teams operating in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment will build against what you design. You define the enterprise data strategy, document the baseline thoroughly, and hand the continuing architecture team a foundation they can maintain.

What You Will Do

• Work alongside the Chief Enterprise Architect and the Solution Architect to determine the enterprise architecture for the program
• Design the foundational enterprise data strategy & governance plan
• Define data standards and patterns for a microservices, database-per-service architecture
• Work with API designers and development teams to hold each service to its own data scope, providing guidance on microservice resilience & isolation as it pertains to data and API design
• Define the data lake or warehousing strategy, and analytics system that consolidates service data for reporting and business intelligence
• Set data lifecycle strategies that account for service scaling and regulatory requirements while keeping cloud total cost of ownership low, covering sharding, data temperature, and archival handling, and assist every team in applying them
• Produce the data architecture artifacts that development teams across the program consume and build against
• Document the data plan baseline for handoff to the continuing architecture team as the program moves from establishment into sustainment
• Work with a team of Agile practitioners and architects throughout the establishment phase

What You Bring

• 8+ years of data architecture or enterprise data management experience
• Experience with microservice data patterns, including database-per-service designs
• Comfort across Big Data, ETL and ELT pipelines, data warehousing, data analytics, business intelligence, and related systems
• Experience supporting a SAFe environment or a large portfolio of concurrent development teams