Senior Data Architect for Cloud-Native Modernization

Peraton; Suitland, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to drive enterprise data architecture strategy and governance within a large federal modernization program. You will define data models, enable data governance, and lead data platforms from ingestion to analytics in a cloud-native environment.

The role requires coordinating across multiple teams, vendors, and contractors to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing data solutions while aligning with NIST, FedRAMP, and ATO requirements.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, enterprise data engineering, or large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Experience designing enterprise data ecosystems including data lakes, warehouses, marts, and distributed data platforms.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Experience implementing metadata management, lineage, catalogs, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with system-of-systems integration, APIs, and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across enterprise data architecture in a large-scale modernization program.
• Design and govern scalable data ecosystems including data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data warehouses, marts, and distributed processing platforms.
• Define and implement enterprise data models, schemas, standards, retention strategies, and lifecycle management approaches.
• Oversee data management, integration, quality, lineage, storage, retention, and governance processes across systems.
• Establish metadata management, data catalogs, data dictionaries, and lineage frameworks supporting governance and traceability requirements.
• Design and manage large-scale data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, transformation workflows, analytics, and dissemination capabilities.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data engineering

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

SAFe

Open-source data stack

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Databricks

Snowflake

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associates degree

High School diploma/equivalent

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to drive enterprise data architecture strategy and governance within a large federal modernization program. You will define data models, enable data governance, and lead data platforms from ingestion to analytics in a cloud-native environment.

The role requires coordinating across multiple teams, vendors, and contractors to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing data solutions while aligning with NIST, FedRAMP, and ATO requirements.