Senior Data Platforms Architect – Zero-Trust & Hybrid Cloud

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Wages

Medical plan with Health Savings Act (

Company-funded Life, Short-Term & Long

Personal Time Off, Vacation, and Paid

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Norton LifeLock

Tuition Reimbursement

Personal Development, Technical and 'L

Corporate Sponsored Events & Community

Job summary

nou Systems seeks a Data Platforms Integrator to support the MDA's Next Generation Environment, providing architectural oversight for data design across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. You will drive data discovery, classification, and protection while aligning with DoD Zero Trust mandates.

As a senior SETA-like advisor, you will guide ABAC, ICAM attributes, and PEP/PDP integrations, ensuring secure access and compliance within classified DoD environments and DISA Thunderdome standards.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of engineering/IT architecture experience, or a Bachelor's with 20+ years.
• Experience architecting and integrating complex enterprise databases, including RDBMS, NoSQL, storage and data pipelines.
• Proven Zero Trust data protection design, classification, and dynamic access governance experience.
• Hands-on data storage and analytics architecture across AWS and Azure environments.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and CISSP certification; US citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority in Architecture Review Boards evaluating database architectures and data pipelines.
• Conduct assessments of mission applications, relational databases, NoSQL, and object storage for modernization.
• Provide architectural oversight for data discovery, cataloging, classification, labeling, and tagging.
• Design and validate data protection solutions including encryption, DLP, data rights management, and masking.
• Ensure alignment with DoD Zero Trust capabilities (SASE, CASB, enterprise DLP).
• Develop and evaluate ABAC solutions using ICAM attributes and contextual risk.
• Oversee integration of PEPs and PDPs for dynamic authorization and secure data access.
• Guide data virtualization, security and access governance across AWS, Azure, and on-prem VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Ensure compliance with DAR, KMS, HSM, JSIG and NIST SP 800-207; govern modernization strategies.
• Lead TEMs with contractors and vendors to resolve cross-platform integration challenges.
• Translate Government requirements into engineering solutions aligned with NGE architecture and DoD cybersecurity.

Skills

Security architecture

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in STEM

Bachelor's degree in STEM with 20 years experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation)

Job description

nou Systems seeks a Data Platforms Integrator to support the MDA's Next Generation Environment, providing architectural oversight for data design across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. You will drive data discovery, classification, and protection while aligning with DoD Zero Trust mandates.

As a senior SETA-like advisor, you will guide ABAC, ICAM attributes, and PEP/PDP integrations, ensuring secure access and compliance within classified DoD environments and DISA Thunderdome standards.