# Data Architect

Anika Systems is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise data and AI platforms supporting federal clients. This role combines data architecture, cloud engineering, and AI innovation to enable data-driven decision-making and intelligent automation. This position is 100% remote. Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance. Key Responsibilities Design scalable enterprise data architectures, data lakes, warehouses, and analytics platforms on AWS. Develop logical, physical, and dimensional data models and establish data governance, quality, security, and metadata standards. Build and optimize data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, and serverless solutions using AWS, Python, and SQL. Design and implement AI-enabled solutions, including RAG, LLM integrations, AI agents, and MCP-based architectures. Develop AI evaluation (Evals) frameworks to measure model accuracy, retrieval quality, safety, and business impact. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. Provide architectural leadership, technology recommendations, a

- **Id**: 3948481
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/anika-systems-data-architect>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
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- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T22:33:28Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:33:28Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
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## Company

- **Id**: 4524675
- **Name**: Anika Systems
- **Domain**: anikasystems.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/anika-systems>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **pgvector** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T23:28:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T00:25:13Z

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