Cloud Data Architect

Role overview

Lead the architecture of a cloud data platform supporting a federal health agency’s analytics and AI services. This role sets technical patterns and coordinates platform, integration, security, and compliance decisions with government stakeholders and engineering teams. The position depends on a contract award; remote work within the continental United States is subject to suitability and system access requirements.

Responsibilities

- Maintain the platform’s enterprise reference architecture and roadmap across cloud data, analytics, integration, and platform services. - Establish standards for data ingestion, storage, modeling, metadata, access control, interoperability, and operations. - Present designs and decision records to architecture governance bodies; assess and document exceptions. - Review cloud and hybrid designs covering identity, networking, segmentation, secure connectivity, resilience, scalability, and cost. - Work with security and compliance teams on Zero Trust, federal security controls, and authorization requirements. - Assess inherited architecture, dependencies, technical debt, and operational handover during transition.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline and extensive cloud or data architecture experience; the source lists 15+ years, subject to final labor category validation. - Experience designing Azure data environments, including services such as Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, and Databricks or comparable platforms. - Background in enterprise data architecture, cloud and hybrid integration, identity and access patterns, and scalable data services. - Ability to document architecture and security approaches, lead technical reviews, and explain tradeoffs to government and engineering stakeholders. - Working knowledge of federal security controls and compliance reviews. - Ability to obtain and maintain moderate-risk public trust suitability and meet agency system access requirements.

Nice to have

- Experience with federal health data platforms, lakehouse designs such as Delta Lake, and data governance or metadata tools. - Familiarity with federated data access, streaming and integration technologies, federal authorization processes, and secure cloud landing zones. - Relevant cloud architecture or security certifications.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote within the continental United States, with Eastern Time collaboration and production coverage. Occasional evening or weekend support may be needed for incidents or maintenance. - Some production coverage and flexibility for urgent support are part of the role.