Data Architect

Role Overview

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data architectures that support NCIS investigative, intelligence, and operational missions.
• Develop and manage conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Establish and enforce data standards, naming conventions, and interoperability frameworks, including NIEM Open.
• Architect cloud-native and hybrid data solutions supporting on ‑ premises and DON virtual private cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain data governance frameworks, including data stewardship, metadata management, and data quality controls.
• Ensure compliance with CJIS, NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP, Privacy Act, CUI, and DoD/DON data policies.
• Design secure data access controls using least privilege principles, encryption, masking, and data loss prevention mechanisms.
• Support data integration strategies, including data lakes, data warehouses, federation, and real-time data exchange solutions.
• Maintain an enterprise data catalog to improve data discoverability, transparency, and governance.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure architectures support machine learning, analytics, and reporting.
• Optimize data platform performance through indexing, partitioning, query optimization, and scalable cloud architectures.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Support enterprise architecture initiatives and provide technical recommendations to government leadership.
• Adhere to Department of the Navy (DON), Intelligence Community (IC), and Department of Justice (DoJ) data standards and security requirements.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance
• Eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access
• Ability to obtain SCI adjudication within six (6) months
• Willingness to sign and comply with Non ‑ Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data engineering
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures in regulated or classified environments
• Experience supporting law enforcement, intelligence, or DoD organizations is highly preferred
• Hands-on experience with hybrid cloud and cloud-native architectures, multiple operating systems and containerization techniques, preferably in Microsoft Azure
• Experience integrating data across multiple systems, agencies, and security domains

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• TypeScript

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• healthcare benefits
• paid leave
• retirement plans
• insurance programs
• education and training assistance