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Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!\nWe deliver essential technology services to our customers in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interests of our nation. SecuriGence is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support the SAGE Team’s architecture and modernization efforts within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Technology Directorate (ITD) environment.\nThe SAGE Team provides architectural support for on premises and multi-cloud enterprises operating across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments, including Impact Level 4 (IL4) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) as well as SAP workloads. The environment currently includes relational database platforms, Microsoft SQL Server, and AWS Relational Database Service (RDS).\nThe Data Architect will lead the development and execution of a modern data architecture strategy that improves scalability, resiliency, security, automation, interoperability, and operational efficiency for both structured and unstructured data assets across the DARPA environment. A central focus of the role is guiding the transition from infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)-based database deployments to secure, containerized and platform-oriented data solutions where operationally appropriate while also rationalizing and organizing disparate data sources (including legacy databases, file shares, and ad hoc research data stores) into governed, cataloged, and analytically usable forms. Help us solve problems with Innovation Through Intelligence.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and maintain the target-state data architecture, roadmap, standards, and reference patterns for DARPA ITD multi-cloud environments.\nAssess existing relational database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server and AWS RDS as well as other data stores such as shared file systems and ad hoc research repositories, and develop modernization recommendations for performance, availability, security, lifecycle management, and cost optimization.\nDesign secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient data solutions supporting AWS, Azure, IL4, and IL6 environments.\nLead architecture decisions related to database modernization, containerized database platforms, managed database services, data replication, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cross-environment data integration including patterns for integrating data from legacy file shares and heterogeneous research data sources into enterprise data platforms.\nDefine architectural patterns for transitioning appropriate database workloads from traditional IaaS deployments to container-based solutions, including Kubernetes-based platforms.\nEstablish data architecture standards for database provisioning, configuration management, schema management, data lifecycle management, encryption, auditing, logging, monitoring, and operational support.\nPartners with cloud architects, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure engineers, application teams, DevSecOps engineers, and program stakeholders to align data solutions with enterprise architecture and mission requirements.\nEnsure data platform designs support applicable DoW cybersecurity, risk-management, security-control, identity, access-control, logging, and continuous-monitoring requirements.\nDevelop Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and repeatable deployment patterns for database and data-platform services.\nEvaluate commercial cloud-native, open-source, and government-approved data technologies; prepare technical recommendations, trade studies, decision papers, and implementation plans.\nSupport architecture reviews, technical design reviews, modernization of working groups, and senior-leader briefings.\nDevelop technical documentation, including data models, logical and physical data architectures, interface specifications, operating procedures, reference architectures, and migration plans.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and administrators supporting database and data-platform operations.\nOther duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\n10+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, database engineering, database administration, cloud architecture, or related technical roles.\n5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise relational database solutions.Demonstrated experience with AWS RDS and AWS-native database services.\nExperience designing and supporting cloud-based data solutions in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.\nExperience with database modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy or IaaS-hosted databases to managed, cloud-native, or containerized platforms.\nExperience with container technologies and orchestration platforms, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), OpenShift, or equivalent platforms.\nExperience implementing DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration-management practices in enterprise environments.\nExperience consolidating and modernizing fragmented organizational data (e.g., legacy databases, file shares, document repositories, research data sets) into governed, cataloged, and analytically ready platforms (such as data warehouses, data lakes, or lake houses).\n\nSecurity certifications such as Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent\nDoD Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting DARPA, DoW, Intelligence Community, or other federal national-security environments.\nExperience supporting IL4, IL5, IL6, classified, or similarly controlled cloud environments.\nExperience with Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or other modern data platforms.\nExperience implementing database platforms on Kubernetes using operators, Helm, GitOps, service meshes, and policy-as-code.\nExperience with Zero Trust Architecture, identity and access management, privileged access management, encryption key management, and security logging for enterprise data platforms.\nExperience with RMF processes, security-control implementation, authorization packages, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring.\nExperience with data cataloging, metadata management, data governance, and enterprise data strategy.\nExperience conducting technology evaluations, migration assessments, cost analyses, and technical trade studies.\nExperience building databases leveraging AI, LLM and RAG solutions.\nThe successful candidate is a technically credible architect who can balance modernization objectives with mission continuity, cybersecurity requirements, operational risk, and maintainability. The candidate should be comfortable working across engineering, cybersecurity, operations, and leadership teams; translating complex technical issues into clear decisions; and driving practical modernization in a sensitive, high-availability mission environment.\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nDemonstrated expertise with Microsoft SQL Server, including high availability, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security, replication, and lifecycle management.\nKnowledge of data architecture principles, including logical and physical data modeling, metadata management, data governance, data integration, data quality, retention, and lifecycle management.\nKnowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, replication, encryption, database auditing, and performance monitoring.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nAbility to produce clear technical documentation, architecture diagrams, migration roadmaps, and decision-ready recommendations.\nAdvanced knowledge of multi-cloud data architecture, with demonstrated skill in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient data solutions across AWS and Azure, including for IL4 and IL6 environments.\nExpertise in database modernization strategies, including the ability to lead migrations from IaaS-hosted databases (e.g., SQL Server) to managed cloud-native services (e.g., AWS RDS) and containerized platforms like Kubernetes.\nProven ability to develop and implement data governance frameworks, covering data modeling, metadata management, data quality, and lifecycle management to consolidate and organize disparate data sources into analytically usable forms.\nSkill in applying DevSecOps principles to data platforms, including the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automation to manage and deploy database services securely and efficiently.\nStrong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to create clear technical documentation, present complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and mentor engineering teams\nHow you’ll grow\nAt Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.\nWe offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.\nBenefits\nAt Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.\nLearn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.\nChenega MIOS’s culture\nOur positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.\nCorporate citizenship\nChenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.\nLearn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.\nChenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/\nTips from your Talent Acquisition Team\nWe want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:\nChenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com\nGlassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm\nLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/\nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/\nEstimated Salary/Wage\nUSD $192,700.00/Yr. 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