Senior Data Architecture Lead - Cloud-Native AI Governance

Peraton; Suitland, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks an experienced Lead Data Architect to join a federal modernization initiative focused on a data-centric, cloud-native ecosystem. You will drive enterprise data architecture strategy, governance and implementation across a large-scale program.

The role spans data platforms, pipelines, AI/ML integration, and secure, scalable processing across multiple systems. You will mentor architects and engineers while ensuring data is structured, governed, and interoperable across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with extensive data architecture experience.
• Experience designing enterprise data architectures for large-scale systems.
• Proven background with Agile/SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Experience with data lakes, warehouses, marts and distributed platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of ETL/ELT pipelines and real-time processing.
• Expertise in metadata, lineage, catalogs, and governance.
• Experience with system-of-systems integration and APIs.
• Experience with AI/ML environments including MLOps and governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across enterprise data architecture in a large-scale modernization program.
• Design and govern scalable data ecosystems including lakes, lakehouse, warehouses and marts.
• Define and implement enterprise data models, schemas, standards, retention and lifecycle management.
• Oversee data management, integration, quality, lineage, storage, retention and governance.
• Establish metadata management, data catalogs and lineage frameworks for governance and traceability.
• Design and manage ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, analytics and dissemination capabilities.
• Support real-time and streaming architectures using event-driven processing.
• Lead APIs, interface management and ICDs; collaborate across teams and vendors.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data governance

Agile/SAFe

MLOps

Cloud data platforms

Data lakes/warehouses

ETL/ELT pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associates degree

High school diploma

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Peraton seeks an experienced Lead Data Architect to join a federal modernization initiative focused on a data-centric, cloud-native ecosystem. You will drive enterprise data architecture strategy, governance and implementation across a large-scale program.

The role spans data platforms, pipelines, AI/ML integration, and secure, scalable processing across multiple systems. You will mentor architects and engineers while ensuring data is structured, governed, and interoperable across the