Senior Solution Architect — Data Governance & AI Platform

Innodata Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Innodata is seeking a Solution Architect to design the backbone of our data services storefront in a secure federal IL4 environment. You will own the governance framework to keep data trustworthy, documented, and compliant end-to-end, translating requirements into a clean technical design.

You will work with engineering and Delivery Owner to deploy a ZenML multi-cloud orchestration stack, define taxonomy and provenance, and ensure DoD/NIST controls are met while leading architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Data Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years total professional experience; 6+ years in data architecture or platform engineering.
• Hands-on Databricks, Delta Lake, and MLflow experience.
• Data governance frameworks: DataCards, provenance, lineage, distribution statement controls.
• ZenML or equivalent ML orchestration tooling; willing to ramp ZenML quickly.
• Working knowledge of IL4/IL5 boundary concepts, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, and DoD data classification requirements.
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-pillar architectural integrity and interface coordination across the 24-week program.
• Design and stand up the DataCard governance framework: schema design, distribution-statement methodology, provenance lineage.
• Deploy and configure ZenML multi-cloud orchestration stack per Innodata Layer 2 Multi-Cloud Architecture v3.
• Design taxonomy engine and sequestration controls architecture.
• Confirm DoD/NIST control split between data-layer and infrastructure-layer scope.
• Lead platform component run books and per-DataCard documentation in Phase E.
• Coordinate with AI Solutions Engineer on Kubernetes-adjacent data-layer DLP policy configuration.
• Coordinate with Backend Engineer on Databricks write-back schema and DataCard write-back path.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

MLflow

ZenML

Data governance

NIST SP 800-53

Kubernetes

Secret clearance

TS/SCI eligibility

IL4/IL5 concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

Kubernetes

Job description

Innodata is seeking a Solution Architect to design the backbone of our data services storefront in a secure federal IL4 environment. You will own the governance framework to keep data trustworthy, documented, and compliant end-to-end, translating requirements into a clean technical design.

You will work with engineering and Delivery Owner to deploy a ZenML multi-cloud orchestration stack, define taxonomy and provenance, and ensure DoD/NIST controls are met while leading architecture