Senior Applications Architect
American Institutes for Research2 days ago
Remote, United States +4 moreSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement secure, scalable, data-driven applications, integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
- Architect end-to-end data solutions covering 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, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and technical implementation using React, TypeScript, Python, SQL, and APIs.
- Create reusable technical components, integration patterns, and reference architectures for maintainable and extensible solutions.
- Translate research, operational, and business requirements into applications, analytics, decision-support workflows, and automation.
- Design and implement Palantir Foundry/Vantage solutions including data pipelines, ontology models, object types, relationships, actions, permissions, and Workshop applications.
- Mentor technical staff and promote technical best practices, reusable architectures, standards, and implementation patterns.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a relevant field and at least seven years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least ten years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale applications, data platforms, and integrated technology solutions.
- Experience developing secure, scalable software applications, system integrations, cloud-based solutions, data architectures, data models, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, and analytics solutions.
- Experience working across multidisciplinary teams to deliver business, operational, research, or analytical technology solutions.
- Experience with software development lifecycle practices and modern software engineering, database, application development, and enterprise platform technologies.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, including data integration, ontology design, application development, and analytics capabilities.
- Strong solution architecture, systems thinking, software engineering, troubleshooting, data architecture, data modeling, communication, stakeholder engagement, organizational, and project management skills.
- Ability to translate complex requirements into intuitive applications and decision-support solutions and to mentor technical staff.
- U.S. citizenship is required, and the incumbent must obtain clearance through the National Background Investigation Services system.
Benefits
- Flexible remote work within the United States or work from a U.S. office location.
- Occasional travel is required for meetings, training sessions, and conferences.
- AIR offers a Total Rewards Program and an anticipated annual salary range of $150,000—$190,000 USD.
- Employment includes reference and background checks and adherence to child safeguarding and drug-free workplace policies.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.