Senior Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• Lead the architecture and delivery of petabyte-scale big data platforms supporting defense and intelligence missions.
• Design, implement, and oversee end-to-end data pipelines, including ingestion, normalization, enrichment, transformation, and delivery of data products to customers.
• Architect analytic workflows that transform commercially available data into mission-relevant intelligence and operational insights.
• Design and implement solutions that fuse commercially available data with government-provided and government-procured datasets to support intelligence analysis, targeting, and threat assessment.
• Evaluate, onboard, and integrate new commercial and government data sources, including technical due diligence, data quality assessment, and architectural impact analysis.
• Collaborate directly with customers to translate operational and intelligence requirements into scalable technical architectures and analytics solutions.
• Act as the technical authority during solution design reviews, customer briefings, and architecture decision-making forums.
• Support pre-sales and capture activities, including technical solution development, RFI/RFP responses, Statements of Work, and customer demonstrations.
• Mentor and guide engineers and junior architects, establishing best practices for data architecture, analytics workflows, and secure system design.
• Ensure solutions meet DoD and Intelligence Community security, compliance, and operational requirements, including classified, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and delivering big data and analytics solutions in support of U.S. government, defense , or intelligence customers.
• Demonstrated expertise with large-scale data pipelines and distributed data platforms, including cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
• Strong background in analytics, intelligence workflows, and data transformation, particularly in operational or mission-focused contexts.
• Experience integrating commercial data sources (OSINT, PAI, financial, network, geospatial, or similar) with government data holdings.
• Proven ability to operate as a customer-facing technical leader, communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting intelligence operations, intelligence analysis, or military operations, translated into commercial or government solutions delivery.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern data tooling (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Palantir, distributed object storage, SQL/Python-based analytics).
• Active TS/SCI clearance (or eligibility).
• Required: Cloud Solutions Architect or equivalent demonstrated experience (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
• Nice to Have: Advanced cloud, data engineering, or security certifications.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps pipelines.
• Background in geospatial, network, or signals-related data domains.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Python
• SQL
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Pension contribution at 2 %
• Private health, dental and vision insurance for you and your family.
• Remote work environment.
• Annual professional development budget for training, certifications and conferences.
• Regular team off-sites and travel opportunities to work with colleagues across Europe and Canada.