Senior Data Architect & AI Solutions Engineer

Aleut Federal; Arlington (VA, CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid Time Off

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Life insurance

401 (k) and match

Job summary

Aleut Federal seeks a senior, market-facing technical leader in Solutions Architecture & Sales Engineering to drive enterprise data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled data solutions across U.S. federal environments.

The role spans lifecycle activities from opportunity shaping to delivery assurance, requiring hands-on design of scalable data ecosystems, governance, and analytics enablement to translate capabilities into mission outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of U.S. federal experience with a Bachelor’s degree.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise data architecture and platform design.
• Experience with data integration, analytics enablement, and technical solutioning and proposal development.
• Ability to obtain a Position of Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solutioning for federal opportunities involving enterprise data architecture, data platforms, analytics, and integration.
• Directly influence and help drive technical wins by defining differentiators, leading customer discussions and architecture sessions, and translating data capabilities into mission, reporting, and decision outcomes.
• Partner with Business Development and Capture to shape opportunities and present and defend data architecture approaches.
• Design data architectures that support AI/ML, retrieval workflows, analytics, and operational decision support.
• Support data preparation, feature engineering, lineage, access control, and observability needed for production-grade AI use cases.
• Lead and contribute to technical proposal development for data opportunities.
• Author and own complete technical sections, including data architecture, ingestion and integration model, governance approach, and analytics enablement.
• Build BOEs aligned to platform scale, integration effort, and operational complexity.
• Ensure solutions are executable, differentiated, and aligned to mission needs.
• Ensure alignment between proposed and delivered data solutions.
• Provide technical oversight during architecture, integration, and implementation phases.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to data quality, lineage, integration complexity, governance, and platform performance.
• Develop data and analytics solution briefs, capability messaging, and reference patterns.
• Actively participate in customer briefings, industry events, and technical forums and be willing to speak on enterprise data strategy, analytics, and AI enablement.
• Position Aleut Federal as a credible enterprise data and analytics partner.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data integration

Analytics enablement

AI/ML data pipelines

Solutioning & proposal development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS analytics

Job description

Aleut Federal seeks a senior, market-facing technical leader in Solutions Architecture & Sales Engineering to drive enterprise data architecture, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled data solutions across U.S. federal environments.

The role spans lifecycle activities from opportunity shaping to delivery assurance, requiring hands-on design of scalable data ecosystems, governance, and analytics enablement to translate capabilities into mission outcomes.