2 days ago
Base Salary
$154k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and document the Summit Enterprise Reference Architecture and roadmap for Azure-based data, analytics, integration, and platform services.
- Define and steward cloud, lakehouse, and data-management standards for ingestion, storage, modeling, interoperability, metadata, access controls, and platform operations.
- Serve as the technical interface to VA architecture governance and the Architecture Review Board, including preparing architecture decision records and managing design exceptions.
- Design and review Azure cloud and hybrid integration patterns involving identity, networking, segmentation, routing, trust boundaries, and secure connectivity.
- Align architecture with Zero Trust, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO, security-impact analysis, and VA cloud requirements.
- Provide architecture guidance and review complex designs for scalability, interoperability, resilience, security, and cost.
- Guide cloud transition and modernization decisions, including Azure Government/Commercial options, migration risks, and service continuity.
- Validate current-state architecture, dependencies, technical debt, documentation, and operational handover during transition from the government and incumbent contractor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of extensive relevant cloud/data architecture experience, subject to final labor-category validation.
- Demonstrated expertise designing and integrating Microsoft Azure data environments, including Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks or comparable enterprise data services.
- Expertise managing and documenting technical architecture, security and compliance strategies, and data platform engineering.
- Experience with complex enterprise data architectures, cloud/hybrid integration, identity and access patterns, and scalable data services.
- Working knowledge of federal security controls, secure architecture reviews, and operational compliance requirements.
- Ability to lead technical reviews, document architectural decisions, communicate tradeoffs, and secure approvals from government and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain VA Public Trust suitability at Tier 2/Moderate Risk and meet VA system-access requirements.
- Preferred experience with the VA Summit Data Platform, VA Enterprise Cloud, or adjacent VA enterprise analytics platforms.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Delta Lake/lakehouse architectures, federated data access, metadata catalogs, Starburst, Collibra, Immuta, Kafka, federal ATO/RMF processes, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust, and Azure landing-zone security.
- Preferred Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, or relevant cloud/data architecture certification.
Benefits
- Remote work within CONUS is available subject to VA security and system-access requirements.
- The role requires support for Eastern Time collaboration and applicable production coverage, with occasional after-hours or weekend support for critical incidents or planned maintenance.
- The position is contingent upon contract award.
- The anticipated posting close date is no earlier than three days after the November 10, 2026 original posting date.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.