Noblis
Data Architect/Engineer
Noblis, Bethesda, MD
Responsibilities
Noblis is seeking an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to join our team in the Bethesda, Maryland area.
As a Data Architect/Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our client's enterprise architecture and driving cloud and data-related initiatives across the client's organization. Your responsibilities will span multiple areas, including strategic planning, cross-domain services, data security and compliance, data integrity, AI, and cloud platforms to enhance our customer's cloud and data ecosystem.
Responsibilities Include:
Required Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
Overview
Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us
Why work at a Noblis company?
Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.
Salary Range Explanation
At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.
Salary at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, and clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is provided within the posting and are based on full time status. Part time staff receive a prorated salary based on regularly scheduled hours. The estimated minimum and maximum displayed represents the broadest range for this position (inclusive of high geographic and high clearance requirements), and is just one component of Noblis' total compensation package for employees.
Posted Salary Range
USD $138,000.00 - USD $215,625.00 /Yr.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
Noblis is seeking an experienced Data Architect/Engineer to join our team in the Bethesda, Maryland area.
As a Data Architect/Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our client's enterprise architecture and driving cloud and data-related initiatives across the client's organization. Your responsibilities will span multiple areas, including strategic planning, cross-domain services, data security and compliance, data integrity, AI, and cloud platforms to enhance our customer's cloud and data ecosystem.
Responsibilities Include:
- Contribute to the design and evolution of our client's enterprise cloud and data architecture, ensuring interoperability, security, and alignment with business goals.
- Develop data and cloud strategies that consider long-term implications, anticipating future needs and trends.
- Collaborate with teams across different domains (e.g., CIO, CDO, Security) to drive data integration initiatives and foster a data-driven culture.
- Analyze current and recommend data security practices, including data transiting between differing security level enclaves, to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
- Analyze current and recommend data structure, tagging, and quality standards, and means to discover and address anomalies in data/data patterns.
- Recommend solutions to analyze data across multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for optimizing storage, compute, and analytics.
- Recommend ways to leverage AI and machine learning techniques to extract insights, automate processes, and enhance decision-making.
- Explore data generated by AI models and recommend ways to manage and integrate them into our client's data ecosystem.
- Analyze current and recommend data tagging standards, enabling efficient data discovery and governance.
- Champion the data mesh paradigm, promoting decentralized data ownership and self-serve analytics.
- Collaborate with the client's service providers for identity, credentialing, and access management to establish, enhance, and manage data access permissions.
- Analyze and recommend ways to optimize compute resources and storage solutions for efficient data processing.
- Recommend methods to integrate qualitative insights by understanding the context and nuances of the data.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree and 12 to 15 years of prior relevant experience OR Master's degree and 10 to 13 years of prior relevant experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
- Experience with data visualization tools/software (e.g., Cameo, Visio, Tableau, MS PowerBI) to develop and deliver data analysis solutions and visualizations in support of client's needs and reporting requirements.
- Experience with architecture components and associated linkages to shape current and future IC architectures.
- Proven experience with DoD and/or IC architectures and Joint Architecture Reference Modeling.
- Strong proficiency in data manipulation and analysis.
- Possess a strong understanding of data types, modeling, and cloud architectures.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and big data (i.e., AI/ML) technologies and techniques.
Desired Qualifications
- Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science).
- Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
- Experience producing executive-level products.
- Knowledge of and experience working with IC policies, directives, and standards.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable recommendations for technical writing and oral briefings.
- Passion for staying up to date with industry trends and advancements.
Overview
Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us
Why work at a Noblis company?
Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.
Salary Range Explanation
At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.
Salary at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, and clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is provided within the posting and are based on full time status. Part time staff receive a prorated salary based on regularly scheduled hours. The estimated minimum and maximum displayed represents the broadest range for this position (inclusive of high geographic and high clearance requirements), and is just one component of Noblis' total compensation package for employees.
Posted Salary Range
USD $138,000.00 - USD $215,625.00 /Yr.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact