Lead Data Architect (Azure)

Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States; hybrid with four days onsite and one remote day per week.

Salary: $180,000–$220,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America.

What you will do

• Advise BCDAO and DS leadership on data architecture, technical options, risks, and trade-offs.
• Own the vision, strategy, standards, and roadmap for data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, analytics, and AI/ML platforms.
• Lead implementation through the data engineering team, including design reviews, proofs of concept, troubleshooting, and technical direction.
• Architect secure data management and movement across unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret environments.
• Design data integration and ETL/ELT across disparate sources and lead migration from legacy on-premises and IaaS solutions to Azure PaaS and SaaS.
• Establish governance, quality, metadata, lineage, access control, security, compliance, monitoring, resilience, and cost-management practices.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance required to start; Top Secret clearance preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data management, or another technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data warehousing, BI, or data platform delivery, including 3+ years in an architect or technical lead role.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting Microsoft Azure data solutions, including Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and Azure SQL.
• Expert knowledge of data architecture, integration, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data warehousing, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience with classified or restricted environments across Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret domains, including cross-domain solution concepts.
• Experience owning data platform roadmaps, leading implementation, and driving cloud migration and modernization.
• Ability to advise senior executives and lead technical teams.
• Experience supporting U.S. federal, law enforcement, diplomatic, or national security missions, particularly in Azure Government or classified Azure environments.
• Experience designing platforms for AI/ML, advanced analytics, or real-time data processing.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, Power BI, Azure DevOps/CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and cloud cost management.
• Familiarity with AWS data services and multi-cloud architectures.

Nice to have

• Top Secret clearance.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert or DAMA CDMP certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Contract-to-hire arrangement with an initial six-month contract.
• Hybrid schedule with four onsite days and one remote day weekly.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending-account, life-insurance, and voluntary-plan benefits.
• Eligible employees may participate in a 401(k) plan.