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This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about applying technical expertise to real-world national security challenges and advancing mission-critical capabilities through research, evaluation, and informed decision-making. This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation (BI) is required; active CBP BI preferred. This position requires 20% travel that may entail remote and rugged areas.\nThe Dataverse Data Architect will work closely with CBP stakeholders, program managers, and technical experts to assess technologies, guide development efforts, inform program strategies, and enable effective deployment of integrated systems. This includes both field-focused technical assessments and the development of supporting engineering and programmatic documentation. The ideal candidate has experience with research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), and can bridge the gap between emerging capability and mission utility.\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain enterprise data architecture solutions across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.\nDefine data architecture standards, governance models, metadata structures, and information management practices for Microsoft 365 platforms.\nAssess business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and maintainable data architecture designs.\nDevelop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support business applications, collaboration platforms, reporting, records management, and automation.\nDesign data structures and integration patterns across Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Microsoft Lists, Power Platform, and Microsoft Graph.\nEstablish information architecture for SharePoint Online, including site structures, content types, metadata, document 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management, audit, compliance, and discovery.\nReview existing Microsoft 365 data structures and recommend improvements for scalability, usability, security, compliance, and performance.\nDevelop architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, metadata models, integration specifications, and architecture decision records.\nSupport migration planning from legacy repositories, file shares, on-premises SharePoint, or other platforms into Microsoft 365.\nProvide technical guidance to solution architects, developers, administrators, business analysts, and project teams.\nSupport application lifecycle management and environment planning for Microsoft 365-integrated applications and Power Platform solutions.\nIdentify risks, dependencies, constraints, and data quality issues, and recommend mitigation strategies.\n\nQualifications\nSENIOR LEVEL: 10+ years of relevant experience and a STEM BS degree or 7 years relevant experience and a MS degree in systems engineering.\nMID LEVEL: 3-10 years’ relevant experience and a STEM BS degree\nDemonstrated experience designing data architecture solutions within Microsoft 365 environments.\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Purview.\nExperience developing information architecture for SharePoint Online, including metadata, content types, site structures, document libraries, lists, and permissions.\nExperience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse.\nExperience designing integrations using Microsoft Graph API, REST APIs, Power Platform connectors, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, or similar tools.\nUnderstanding of Microsoft Purview capabilities, including data classification, sensitivity labels, retention labels, records management, audit, eDiscovery, and data lifecycle management.\nExperience designing secure access and permissions 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