Technical Lead & Data Architect: Enterprise Data & AI

Nationwide IT Services, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide IT Services is seeking a Technical Lead / Data Architect who will serve as the senior technical authority for the ANG CDAO support effort and interface with Government stakeholders. The role provides architecture leadership across Azure Databricks, Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, and Power BI, establishing standards and guiding integration decisions.

Hybrid work with ANGRC, MD, up to 3 telework days; active SECRET clearance required.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior-level experience designing and governing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, analytics solutions, and integrated applications.
• Hands-on architecture experience with cloud data platforms and modern ETL/ELT patterns; strong SQL and Python knowledge.
• Experience with Azure Databricks and at least one major enterprise data/AI platform such as Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, or Advana/WDP.
• Experience designing secure, scalable integrations, data models, semantic layers, APIs/interfaces, access controls, and data-governance practices.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and resolve cross-workstream technical issues.
• Must satisfy applicable DoD/DAF security, cybersecurity-awareness, CUI, OPSEC, and access-training requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact to the COR and Government Program Manager for architecture, engineering, integration, technical standards, and quality matters.
• Define and maintain end-to-end data architecture spanning source-system ingestion, ETL/ELT processing, data warehouse/lake repositories, semantic layers, BI products, AI interfaces, and custom applications.
• Provide technical governance across approximately 25-35 active data pipelines, 25-35 BI products, 10-15 Power Apps, and four command-priority enterprise applications.
• Guide cross-platform interoperability and secure data movement among Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, Advana/WDP, Azure Databricks, and Power BI.
• Own or review data models, source-to-target mappings, lineage, data dictionaries, access-control designs, integration patterns, and operational runbooks.
• Lead design and code reviews and enforce quality gates for CI/CD, data validation, testing, UAT readiness, release management, performance, and defect remediation.
• Ensure technical solutions satisfy DoD IL4/IL5, least-privilege, CUI-handling, data-integrity, availability, and performance expectations defined by the PWS.
• Coordinate technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, scalability improvements, and architecture changes across engineering workstreams.
• Ensure all technical deliverables and documentation remain current, traceable, reproducible, and aligned to Government requirements.

Skills

Senior data architecture

Cloud data platforms

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Data governance

Technical leadership

Tools

Azure Databricks

Palantir Foundry

AskSage

Microsoft Azure

Advana/Warfighter Data Platform

Power BI

Power Platform

Job description

Nationwide IT Services is seeking a Technical Lead / Data Architect who will serve as the senior technical authority for the ANG CDAO support effort and interface with Government stakeholders. The role provides architecture leadership across Azure Databricks, Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, and Power BI, establishing standards and guiding integration decisions.

Hybrid work with ANGRC, MD, up to 3 telework days; active SECRET clearance required.