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Sr. Data Architect
Category: Database Administration
Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax
Alternate Location(s): United States, Louisiana, Lafayette
Position ID:J0926-0201
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description:
CGI is seeking a Data Architect to design and evolve the enterprise data architecture supporting Congress.gov. The Architect will define data standards, models, pipelines, and governance frameworks enabling ingestion, transformation, and delivery of large, diverse legislative datasets for congressional operations and public consumption.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Architect enterprise-wide data models, metadata structures, and governance standards.
• Design scalable ingestion, transformation, validation, and integration pipelines.
• Data modernization.
• Establish interoperability and quality frameworks across LOC data domains.
• Collaborate with SMEs, developers, DevOps, and analytics teams.
• Support modernization efforts ensuring accuracy, traceability, security, and performance.
• Produce documentation including models, dictionaries, and architectural diagrams.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in data architecture or enterprise data engineering
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines and models supporting enterprise ecosystems
• Strong understanding of metadata management, governance, and data quality frameworks
• Ability to translate mission requirements into data-centric architectural solutions
• XML, JSON, and other data formats with a focus on data modernization
• Data ingest into Solr and other search engines
• API design and operation for complex data sets
Desired Qualifications
• Experience with AWS data ecosystem (Redshift, Glue, Lambda, S3, etc.)
• Familiarity with federal data governance and compliance standards
• Experience designing data solutions for large public-facing platforms
What you can expect from us:
Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
