Senior Data Architect - Cloud Lakehouse & Real-Time Pipelines

ADP, Inc.; Paris (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company contribution

Paid time off + 11 federal holidays

Certification reimbursement

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

SHR Consulting Group, LLC is seeking a senior Lead Data Architect to provide enterprise data architecture leadership for FEMA efforts in a bid context. The role focuses on establishing and evolving data architecture, ensuring scalable pipelines, data products, and secure data services aligned with FEMA standards.

The Lead Data Architect will guide enterprise cloud platforms, metadata-driven ingestion, and AI/ML data services while supporting capacity planning, performance, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms and architectures.
• Demonstrated experience with Databricks Lakehouse or comparable enterprise cloud data platforms.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Medallion architecture.
• Demonstrated expertise designing scalable real-time streaming topologies.
• Experience designing data architectures within Federal cloud or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data integration, data modeling, lineage, metadata management, governance, and access controls.
• Experience designing architectures supporting high-volume batch and streaming workloads.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex data pipeline and architecture failures.
• Experience establishing reusable enterprise architecture patterns and technical standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate architecture decisions to both technical teams and Government leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of FEMA's enterprise data architecture.
• Design enterprise-wide cloud data platforms and scalable data-processing architectures.
• Develop and govern Medallion/Lakehouse architecture patterns.
• Design and oversee metadata-driven ingestion frameworks.
• Design scalable real-time and streaming architectures.
• Oversee end-to-end data lineage from source systems through curated data layers and downstream consumption.
• Provide architecture guidance and technical leadership to engineering teams and Government stakeholders.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Medallion architecture

Real-time streaming

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Data integration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Databricks

Python / PySpark

SQL

CI/CD

Data catalogs

Job description

SHR Consulting Group, LLC is seeking a senior Lead Data Architect to provide enterprise data architecture leadership for FEMA efforts in a bid context. The role focuses on establishing and evolving data architecture, ensuring scalable pipelines, data products, and secure data services aligned with FEMA standards.

The Lead Data Architect will guide enterprise cloud platforms, metadata-driven ingestion, and AI/ML data services while supporting capacity planning, performance, and cost optimization.