Senior Federal Integration Architect

Unison; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unison is seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to serve as the senior technical authority for integration, data migration, and reporting solutions across federal civilian, defense, and intelligence programs.

This hands-on role leads design, architecture, standards, and mentorship for a team of technical consultants, translating business requirements into robust technical designs and durable delivery approaches.

Qualifications

• Professional experience designing, developing, and supporting system integrations, data migration, or reporting solutions.
• Prior software development experience is highly preferred.
• Experience owning solution architecture and technical design decisions across multiple interfaces or workstreams.
• Experience delivering enterprise software, ERP, or large-scale system implementations.
• Experience working in structured delivery environments (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
• Experience in client-facing technical roles supporting federal government agencies or government contractors.

Responsibilities

• Own solution architecture for integration, data migration, and reporting workstreams, including design decisions, integration patterns, and data architecture across interfacing systems.
• Establish, document, and enforce technical standards for development, configuration management, deployment, and technical documentation.
• Provide technical direction to other technical consultants, including task assignment, design guidance, and review of their work products.
• Conduct design and code reviews and hold the quality bar for maintainability, performance, and security across the technical team.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex integration, data, and reporting issues, leading root cause analysis and durable resolution.
• Mentor and develop technical consultants, building depth on the team through knowledge transfer, pairing, and structured feedback.
• Design, build, and deliver the most complex technical components personally, including integrations, conversions, and reporting solutions.
• Partner with clients, functional consultants, and project managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and realistic delivery approaches.
• Provide technical input into estimates, level of effort, staffing plans, and proposal and capture activities for new and follow-on work.
• Assess technical risk across the program, including integration dependencies, data quality, environment readiness, and performance, and communicate it to project and program leadership.
• Lead technical planning for implementation, upgrade, cutover, and post-production activities, including production support and defect resolution.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor in client-facing meetings, design sessions, and technical governance forums, and drive improvement of technical standards and delivery frameworks.

Skills

SQL

APIs

ETL

Talend

Java

Oracle DB

BI tools

Cloud integration

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Talend Data Services

Apache Camel

Apache CXF

Oracle PL/SQL

Job description

Unison is seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to serve as the senior technical authority for integration, data migration, and reporting solutions across federal civilian, defense, and intelligence programs.

This hands-on role leads design, architecture, standards, and mentorship for a team of technical consultants, translating business requirements into robust technical designs and durable delivery approaches.