Senior Data Architect

Description

The Vanguard 2.2.1 contract currently has an opening for a Senior Data Architect/Scientist to support the Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Directorate. This program develops leading-edge technologies and delivers innovative solutions to the DoS. SAIC is seeking a highly qualified Data Architect/Scientist to support the various initiatives; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, consolidation and centralized data lake for various Splunk platforms, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS initiatives within the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud environments. The position may allow temporary remote work due to Covid-19.  Position may be called back onsite at any time at the customer's request.

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  Summary: Develop solutions utilizing quantitative analysis, predictive analytics, data modeling, data lake design, and machine learning in support of the DoS mission.

  
  


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  Duties: Work directly with customers to provide identification, collection, definition, maintenance, search, reporting, and dashboard capabilities from data gathered across IT service, asset, configuration, and event monitoring systems. Able to collect, analyze, and report on IT service level metrics and key performance indicators. Architect a service for performance, interpret trends and patterns in complex data sets, and identify improvement opportunities.

  
  

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree plus fourteen (14) years of related IT, Data Architect, and/or systems engineering experience, or Master’s degree plus twelve (12) years of experience.
  
  
  
  
  • Highly motivated, self-directed, and responsible contributor.
  
  
  
  


• Effective communicator and relationship builder.


• Ability to ascertain information about current organizational IT practices, systems, and their interrelationships, and how data is used to attain technical, organizational, and service performance insights.


• Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques.


• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets.


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.


• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings.

Required Clearance

• US Citizenship


• Active Secret clearance with eligibility to obtain Top Secret clearance. 

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Experience in applying Database Design, Data Lake, and Data Mining principles within virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.


• Familiar with Big Data Architecture (Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark), distributed system, data warehousing (example:  Apache Hive), and Data Lakes


• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service within at least one of the 3 major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, or Microsoft)


• Strong Technical Skills in MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB


• Programming languages - XML, JavaScript, Python


• Strong development, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting skills.


• Experience with Splunk,Tableau, PowerBI or equivalent analytics tools.


• Experience with data modeling, predictive analytics, quantitative analysis, data lake design, machine learning


• Experience with database security hardening processes in a Government environment


• Experience with shell scripting


• Experience with Agile, Scrum, DevOps process


• Proficient working within Windows and Linux Operating Systems


• Holds 1-2 technical certifications related to database design and/or data analysis preferred.


• Team oriented approach and capable of working independently


• Mission/customer driven solution architect


• Ability to integrate customer vision/mission with emerging technologies


• Excellent oral and written communication skills


• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills