C2 Mission Systems Data ArchitectThe Opportunity: For an organization to transform in today’s digital world, it needs to properly collect, store, and organize its data. Effective data management can enable more efficient operations, yielding more growth. As a data architect, you know how to apply your creative-thinking and analytical mindset to help organizations manage their data assets. We’re looking for a data architecture lead like you to solve complex challenges and deliver leading-edge solutions for our warfighters. As a data architect on our battle management team, you’ll use your extensive technical expertise to lead the design of data architecture solutions for defining how mission data is modeled, governed, and moved across next-generation Command and Control (C2) systems, turning sensor feeds, mission systems, and enterprise stores into a coherent, interoperable data foundation that operators and analysts can trust. You’ll resolve routine data architecture-related issues in collaboration with business analysts and technology teams by analyzing data architecture to make decisions and recommendations on future data architecture developments. In this role, you’ll share your technical expertise, introduce best practices, and use tools like AWS and data fabric and data mesh, to model from concept to physical implementation, designing the data fabric or mesh that connects mission systems, establishing master data management and governance, and setting the data strategy that ties it all together. You'll architect on the cloud and align to DoDAF and interoperability standards. You’ll lead your team as it designs, defines, develops, and tests cloud solution components, and you’ll serve as a liaison between clients and developers to ensure that requirements are met and solutions are delivered. With your motivation to establish processes and facilitate technological innovation, you’ll make a lasting impact on warfighters. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: Experience in enterprise data modeling from conceptual through logical to physical designExperience designing data fabric or data mesh architectures across multiple mission systemsExperience establishing master data management (MDM) and data governance practicesExperience applying DoDAF data-centric views and interoperability standards to system-of-systems designsExperience defining data strategy that spans and integrates multiple mission systemsExperience with cloud data architecture on AWS, including data governance and securityAbility to translate mission requirements into scalable, interoperable, and trusted data designsSecret clearanceBachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or Data Science and 10+ years of experience with data architecture or data engineering, including mission or defense systems, or 14+ years of experience with data architecture or data engineering, including mission or defense systems, in lieu of a degreeNice If You Have: Experience with C2, ISR, or sensor data and its architectural and latency constraintsExperience designing real-time and streaming data architectures such as Kafka, Kinesis, or FlinkExperience with data cataloging, lineage, and metadata management toolingExperience with DataOps, data pipeline automation, and CI/CD for dataMaster's degree Security+ CE or similar DoD 8570 IAT Level II CertificationTOGAF or similar CertificationAWS Certification such as Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, or Database CertificationClearance:Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.CompensationAt Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. 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