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OSC Edge · 1 month ago

Chief Data Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

OSC Edge is a dedicated IT Service Provider supporting various government departments and large corporate entities. The Chief Data Architect will lead the development of the organization's data strategy and architecture, ensuring data quality and security while providing technical expertise and leadership to the team.

Cloud ComputingCyber SecurityInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Defines the enterprise data strategy, governance, and platform vision

Aligns data initiatives with the organizations’ business objectives and long-range goals

Ensures alignment of Program Team’s plans, deliverables, and technology support services to the Government’s enterprise architecture

Research and advises the Government on emerging technologies and their feasibility for improving service delivery or IT capabilities to support customers

Oversees the design and development of complex data architectures

Drives the build-out of modern data ecosystems, such as data lakes, data meshes, and data warehouses, in a cloud-native, hybrid or on-prem environment

Validates and synchronizes architecture plans with other architecture teams

Provides expert engineering for enterprise changes addressing emerging mission needs

Establishes enterprise-wide policies and standards for data modeling, quality, security, and usage

Manages metadata practices to ensure data discoverability and lineage

Develops Engineering and Implementation Plans (EIPs)

Evaluates and assess EIPs on new and emerging technologies, then present innovative solutions to leadership

Plans, leads, and/or supports technology pilots to validate proposed designs; provide surge deployment capabilities when a design is accepted for rapid deployment

Designs solutions to integrate data from various internal and external sources

Ensures data from different systems can be combined effectively to provide a cohesive, unified view

Assists in developing a Development Operations (DevOps) process combining software development and IT operations into existing Technical Design processes

Implements Government-approved components into the DevOps process; and build and deploy automation to take advantage of DevOps integration

Provides expert guidance and mentorship to data architecture, data engineering, and analytics teams. Drive the adoption of architectural best practices

Qualification

Data ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureData StandardsSEC+ CertificationDODAF GuidelinesData QualityCloud ComputingProblem-SolvingCommunication SkillsMentorship