Senior Data Architect: Army Vantage & Palantir Foundry

CACI International Inc.; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI International Inc. seeks a Senior Data Architect with Army Vantage and Palantir Foundry experience to lead enterprise data architecture, data engineering, analytics, and application development for a key DoD program.

You will own end-to-end architecture, design data models, implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, and guide a geographically distributed team while collaborating with government stakeholders and engineers to deliver governed data products.

Qualifications

• Must be a hands-on architect or technical lead who has designed, implemented, deployed, and supported production enterprise data and AI systems.
• Experience with Army Vantage or Palantir Foundry platforms is required.
• Strong communication and ability to work independently in a DoD environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and hands-on implementation of enterprise data, analytics, and applications.
• Design and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data models using Kimball and lakehouse patterns.
• Develop, refine, and maintain data cleansing pipelines and governance capabilities.
• Lead engineers, review code, and align architecture with client goals.

Skills

Hands-on architect

Communication

Databricks Lakehouse

Medallion architecture

Kimball dimensional modelling

Foundry Ontology

Python

PySpark

Spark SQL

SQL development

Education

B.S. in a related field

M.S. in a related field

Tools

Databricks

Foundry

Power tools for governance

Job description

CACI International Inc. seeks a Senior Data Architect with Army Vantage and Palantir Foundry experience to lead enterprise data architecture, data engineering, analytics, and application development for a key DoD program.

You will own end-to-end architecture, design data models, implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, and guide a geographically distributed team while collaborating with government stakeholders and engineers to deliver governed data products.