Solutions Architect - Data Intelligence at Analytica

This role is designed for a seasoned technology leader with at least 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, specifically within data-heavy environme

Work type: onsite

Location: Bethesda, MD

Type: full-time

Summary

This role is designed for a seasoned technology leader with at least 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, specifically within data-heavy environments. It is ideal for an expert who has previously led large-scale digital transformations and feels comfortable navigating the complex regulatory landscape of federal government programs (specifically DHS or USCIS). You will serve as the senior technical authority for the PLANXS program, overseeing the evolution of a massive enterprise analytics and cloud architecture in AWS. This is a high-visibility leadership position where you will manage multi-disciplinary teams of SMEs while staying hands-on with architectural decisions regarding big data, microservices, and DevSecOps. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have a deep background in AWS cloud solutions and modernizing legacy data environments. * Are comfortable serving as the primary technical interface for executive-level stakeholders and federal security teams. * Have 10+ years of experience and a track record of leading large, multi-team technical organizations. * Hold certifications in cloud architecture, security, or Agile and understand PII-sensitive environment regulations.

Job Description

Analytica is seeking a Solutions Architect, Data Intelligence to lead the vision, architecture, and modernization of a mission-critical enterprise data and analytics environment supporting a high-profile federal program. This role will define the future-state architecture for a complex analytics ecosystem while ensuring current capabilities remain stable, secure, and aligned to mission needs.

This leader will drive strategy across big data analytics, data integration, self-service BI, AI/ML enablement, data governance, and knowledge graph capabilities, translating business needs into scalable, sustainable technical solutions. Working closely with engineering, operations, security, and stakeholders, the Principal Solutions Architect will shape how data is acquired, modeled, governed, exposed, and used for decision-making across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the lead architect for the enterprise data and analytics ecosystem, guiding current-state sustainment and future-state modernization.

Define and evolve architecture for data ingestion, integration, storage, transformation, modeling, analytics, visualization, and governed access.

Lead design of scalable solutions for enterprise repositories, operational data stores, data marts, domain data products, self-service BI, and advanced analytics.

Drive architecture decisions for data quality, schema management, metadata, lineage, privacy, security, and identity-aware access.

Shape and operationalize capabilities in AI/ML, intelligent data models, predictive analytics, and graph/relationship-based analytics.

Partner with stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to translate mission needs into practical, secure, and reusable solutions.

Guide modernization of legacy capabilities using cloud-native, open-source, and commercial technologies while maximizing value from existing investments.

Establish architecture standards, reusable patterns, and technical governance through design reviews, roadmaps, and mentoring.

Collaborate with the platform/DevSecOps lead to ensure solutions are secure, deployable, observable, performant, and cost-effective.

Support Agile delivery, executive reporting, technical documentation, training, and transition planning

Required Qualifications:

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain any required clearance or suitability determination

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or related field. Master’s degree in a plus.

12+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, analytics architecture, or solution architecture, including leadership in large, complex environments.

Proven success designing and modernizing enterprise data platforms, BI ecosystems, and advanced analytics solutions.

Strong experience with big data, data lakes/lakehouse implementation, enterprise reporting, analytical data modeling, and cloud-based analytics platforms, preferably on AWS.

Proven enterprise experience with several of the following or equivalent technologies:

Databricks, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, DeltaSharing

AWS services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Kinesis, DMS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS, EC2, CloudFormation

Hands-on experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other relational and NoSQL database technologies in enterprise environments.

Decision Intelligence tools such as Tableau or PowerBI

Data Governance /MDM tools such as Informatica, Collibra, or Reltio

Experience developing in Python, Scala, Groovy, PL/SQL

Experience architecting and enabling AI/ML capabilities within Databricks, including ontology-driven semantic models, knowledge graphs, graph analytics, and high-volume data integration to support advanced analytics and intelligent decision-making.

Experience with entity resolution and relationship intelligence technologies, such as Senzing, to improve data accuracy, identity resolution, and graph-based analytical outcomes.

Experience supporting data governance, schema management, data quality, and privacy/security controls.

Experience working in Agile, Scrum, and DevSecOps delivery models.

Strong communication skills with the ability to engage executives, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications:
• Certification: Databricks Certified Solutions Architect or Data Engineer Professional and/orAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Experience supporting federal or similarly regulated mission environments.
• Experience with Senzing, Sprinklr, CopyStorm, or similar COTS/data enrichment platforms.
• Familiarity with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and containerized enterprise data platforms.
• Experience with legacy modernization, transition planning, and Section 508-aware analytics delivery.

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