Technical Lead / Data Architect

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact to the COR and Government Program Manager for architecture, engineering, integration, technical standards, and quality matters.
• Define and maintain end-to-end data architecture spanning source-system ingestion, ETL/ELT processing, data warehouse/lake repositories, semantic layers, BI products, AI interfaces, and custom applications.
• Provide technical governance across approximately 25–35 active data pipelines, 25–35 BI products, 10–15 Power Apps, and four command-priority enterprise applications.
• Guide cross-platform interoperability and secure data movement among Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, Advana/WDP, Azure Databricks, and Power BI.
• Own or review data models, source-to-target mappings, lineage, data dictionaries, access-control designs, integration patterns, and operational runbooks.
• Lead design and code reviews and enforce quality gates for CI/CD, data validation, testing, UAT readiness, release management, performance, and defect remediation.
• Ensure technical solutions satisfy DoD IL4/IL5, least-privilege, CUI-handling, data-integrity, availability, and performance expectations defined by the PWS.
• Coordinate technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, scalability improvements, and architecture changes across engineering workstreams.
• Ensure all technical deliverables and documentation remain current, traceable, reproducible, and aligned to Government requirements.

• Demonstrated senior-level experience designing and governing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, analytics solutions, and integrated applications.
• Hands-on architecture experience with cloud data platforms and modern ETL/ELT patterns; strong SQL and Python knowledge.
• Experience with Azure Databricks and at least one major enterprise data/AI platform such as Palantir Foundry, AskSage, Microsoft Azure, or Advana/WDP.
• Experience designing secure, scalable integrations, data models, semantic layers, APIs/interfaces, access controls, and data-governance practices.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and resolve cross-workstream technical issues.
• Must satisfy applicable DoD/DAF security, cybersecurity-awareness, CUI, OPSEC, and access-training requirements.

• Familiarity with DAF/DoD human resources, financial, logistics, maintenance, or readiness data systems such as MILPDS, DCPDS, AFRISS, CHRIS, CMS, CRIS, GFEBS, DEAMS, REMIS, AROWS, M4S, or iEMS.

Nationwide IT Services?