Senior Federal Data Platform Architect

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Intrepid, an SPA Company, seeks a Senior Solution Architect to join our Federal Health Data Platform initiative supporting DoD and Army/DoD stakeholders. You will craft scalable architectures spanning cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments, translating mission needs into concrete designs and guiding modernization across legacy systems.

You will lead architectural discussions, produce detailed diagrams and roadmaps, and promote reusable data patterns across teams while ensuring

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Define scalable solution architectures for a modern federal health data platform across cloud, on-prem, and gov-hosted environments.
• Translate mission, business, data, security, and operational requirements into technical designs.
• Develop current-state and target-state architectures guiding modernization of legacy data systems.
• Design integration approaches for data exchange across defense and federal systems, including APIs and data pipelines.
• Establish reference architectures, patterns, standards, and guardrails for interoperability.
• Evaluate options based on security, scalability, performance, cost, and risk.
• Guide use of Databricks and cloud services (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, hybrid).
• Ensure data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, access, and lifecycle considerations.
• Lead architecture discussions with engineers, leaders, customers, and stakeholders.
• Produce architecture diagrams, interfaces, design docs, decision records, and roadmaps.
• Review designs with Data Engineers and Tech Leads to align with platform architecture.
• Identify dependencies and risks early and drive resolution across teams.
• Communicate complex architecture decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Promote reusable patterns and guidance across teams.

Skills

Secret clearance

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

API design

Git workflows

Client-facing

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Information Systems

Master's degree in Software Engineering

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Oracle Cloud

Job description

Intrepid, an SPA Company, seeks a Senior Solution Architect to join our Federal Health Data Platform initiative supporting DoD and Army/DoD stakeholders. You will craft scalable architectures spanning cloud, on-premises, and government-hosted environments, translating mission needs into concrete designs and guiding modernization across legacy systems.

You will lead architectural discussions, produce detailed diagrams and roadmaps, and promote reusable data patterns across teams while ensuring