Data Architect SME

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos

Full-time

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As the largest provider of IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT systems for several US federal agencies. This role will serve a federal law enforcement agency from either the National Capital Region or Huntsville, Alabama. The position provides technical and management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments, establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives. A Subject Matter Expert (SME) is an individual whose qualifications and expertise are exceptional and highly unique, possessing domain and expert technical knowledge. The SME will initiate, supervise, and develop requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs. They will provide strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to program and project staff, along with detailed analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission-critical challenges. Consulting with clients to define needs or problems, the SME will supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. Decision-making and domain knowledge may have a critical impact on overall project implementation. As a member of an Agile Team, the SME will be responsible for a scalable, cloud-based repository where data from the Data Lake is quickly formatted, enriched, analyzed, and made available to users. This repository provides a single location to rapidly parse, index, and secure data for Enterprise Search, Analytics, and other mission-driven use cases.

Responsibilities

• Designs and develops solutions to complex data sets.
• Leads the development of enterprise data architectures, strategies, and solution recommendations in support of business strategies.
• Leads design of high-level conceptual and logical models that facilitate across-system/cross-functional view of data requirements.
• Establishes processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate metadata and ensures metadata accuracy, validity, and quality.
• Provides leadership to system and local work groups.
• Designs and builds relational and non-relational databases.
• Translates business needs into long-term architecture solutions.
• Reviews object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or other related discipline, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• US Citizenship.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Apache Niagra Files (NiFi).
• Experience with Apache Tika.
• Experience with Databricks and Lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with Elastic Search.
• Experience with AWS SQS.
• DOD Top Secret Clearance.