Type of Requisition:
Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Data Science and Data Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Data Architecture Development, Data Lake, Data Science, Enterprise Data
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Data Architect Sr. Principal

Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers' most complex challenges. As a Data Architect Sr Principal at GDIT, you'll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward.

We're seeking a Data Architect to design and deliver modern, scalable data platforms and models that support enterprise analytics and decision-making.

Required Qualifications
• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or equivalent
• Experience: 10+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: Active TS/SCI with poly
• US citizenship required
• 10+ years in data engineering, BI, or analytics, including 5+ years designing enterprise data architectures (warehouse, lake, or lakehouse).
• Delivered 3+ production cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, covering security, networking, cost optimization, and DR aligned to RPO/RTO targets.
• Strong data modeling experience: built 10+ enterprise models (conceptual, logical, physical), including dimensional (star/snowflake) and normalized/Data Vault designs.
• Delivered and maintained 25+ production data pipelines (batch or streaming) with automated quality checks, lineage, and orchestration tools such as Airflow, ADF, Glue, or Dagster, meeting defined freshness/latency SLAs.
• Hands-on experience with data governance: catalogs, glossaries, classification, retention, RBAC/ABAC, and compliance with frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, or SOX.

Desired Qualifications
• Experience with cloud-native data management platforms.
• Experience leading data management or analytics teams.
• Certification in relevant data science or analytics methodologies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA Chantilly

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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