Senior Applications Architect
American Institutes for Research9 hours ago
Remote, United States +4 moreSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement secure, scalable, data-driven applications and integrated technology solutions.
- Architect end-to-end data solutions spanning ingestion, transformation, modeling, analytics, and user-facing applications.
- Develop relational, semantic, and ontology-based data models and integrate data from multiple sources with quality, governance, and traceability controls.
- Contribute hands-on to application development, integrations, testing, debugging, and performance optimization using React, TypeScript, Python, SQL, and REST APIs.
- Create reusable technical components, integration patterns, reference architectures, and implementation standards.
- Translate research, program, business, and operational requirements into applications, analytics, decision-support workflows, and automation.
- Develop Palantir Foundry/Vantage data pipelines, ontology models, object types, relationships, actions, permissions, and Workshop applications.
- Mentor technical staff and collaborate with multidisciplinary technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a related field with at least seven years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree in a related field with at least ten years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, architecting, and implementing enterprise-scale applications, data platforms, and integrated technology solutions.
- Experience developing and deploying secure, scalable software applications, integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
- Experience with data architectures, data models, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, and analytics solutions.
- Experience delivering technology solutions for business, operational, research, or analytical objectives across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and Agile development practices.
- Experience with modern software engineering technologies, application frameworks, database technologies, and enterprise platforms.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, including data integration, ontology design, application development, and analytics.
- Strong solution architecture, systems-thinking, software engineering, data architecture, data modeling, troubleshooting, communication, stakeholder engagement, organizational, and project management skills.
- Ability to translate complex requirements into intuitive technical solutions and mentor technical staff.
Benefits
- Flexible remote work within the United States or work from a U.S. office location; U.S. territories are excluded.
- Occasional travel is required for meetings, training sessions, and conferences.
- AIR’s Total Rewards Program is designed to reward staff competitively and support its mission.
- Employment-based visa sponsorship, including H-1B sponsorship, is not available for this position.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringFull Stack
About American Institutes for Research
American Institutes for Research is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and consulting organization that conducts behavioral and social science studies and provides technical assistance in education, health, and workforce development. It delivers evaluations, data science and survey projects, policy analysis, and capacity-building services for government agencies, school systems, and nonprofits under contracts and grants. Founded in 1946, it is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and works across the United States and internationally.