Senior Data Architect - Greenfield Data Lakehouse Lead

BNH; Tullahoma (TN); On-site; USD 148,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond New Horizons (BNH) seeks a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and deployment of a modern, greenfield data ecosystem in support of the AEDC TOS II contract. You will define enterprise data models, ingestion frameworks, and secure Lakehouse infrastructures to double aerospace testing throughput.

The role partners with the Data Product Manager to translate roadmaps into scalable architectures, enforce data governance, and ensure compliance with DoD/NIST controls while mentoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field plus ten (10) years of progressive experience in data architecture, data modeling, and enterprise data engineering; OR Master’s degree in a related STEM field plus eight (8) years of experience; OR Bachelor’s degree in any field plus ten (10) years of direct enterprise data architecture experience.
• Minimum of four (4) years designing distributed data storage systems, data lakehouses, or enterprise data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Big Query, or on-premises equivalents).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance and maintain authorized user access to the AEDC local area network.
• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal government contract compliance requirements and the necessity to access secure federal databases and networks on Arnold Air Force Base.

Responsibilities

• Greenfield Architecture & System Design: Architect scalable, high-throughput data pipelines and hybrid cloud/on-premise storage repositories for aerospace test telemetry, operational diagnostics, and business intelligence workloads.
• Product Manager Partnership & Technical Roadmap: Translate product vision, feature backlogs, and user stories into technical system designs, architecture blueprints, schema definitions, and interface control documents (ICDs).
• Data Ingestion & Telemetry Pipelines: Design real-time and batch ingestion architectures capable of handling massive telemetry, instrumentation, and sensor data feeds across legacy and modernized test facilities.
• Data Modeling & Governance Integration: Create and enforce enterprise-level conceptual, logical, and physical data models, master data schemas, and data dictionaries ensuring full lineage and cataloging.
• Security, IA & Contract Compliance: Implement DoD Zero-Trust data access principles, NIST SP 800-171/DoD 8570 controls, and RBAC to protect CUI.
• Technical Mentorship & Agile Execution: Lead technical spikes, guide data engineers on implementation patterns, conduct architecture peer reviews, and participate in sprint planning and backlog grooming.
• Data Governance and Quality Management: Oversee governance, data quality, master data management, and data security; ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements; promote best practices in data architecture.
• It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE and perform other duties as required.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Enterprise data engineering

Security compliance

US Citizenship required

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Information Systems or related STEM field

Master’s degree in related STEM field

Bachelor’s degree in any field with 10+ years direct enterprise data architecture experience

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

dbt

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Databricks

Redshift

BigQuery

Collibra

Alation

Apache Atlas

Microsoft Purview

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Job description

Beyond New Horizons (BNH) seeks a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and deployment of a modern, greenfield data ecosystem in support of the AEDC TOS II contract. You will define enterprise data models, ingestion frameworks, and secure Lakehouse infrastructures to double aerospace testing throughput.

The role partners with the Data Product Manager to translate roadmaps into scalable architectures, enforce data governance, and ensure compliance with DoD/NIST controls while mentoring