About OPEN Data Jobs

OPEN Data Jobs (ODJ) is built to craft data careers. We connect high-potential data, AI, and software professionals with meaningful work on the cutting edge of the federal sector, and our aim reaches beyond any single opening: to help you understand your strengths, find the right role, and grow throughout your career.

ODJ is organized around Roles and Openings. A Role is a durable career type, such as Data Engineer or AI Engineer: it describes the work, the skills that count, and where the path can lead. An Opening is a specific position hiring right now, with a level, a location, and an application. Roles help you see where you fit; from there, there is more than one way to move.

Today, you can apply to any Opening that fits you through our secure application system. You can also register for a Role to express interest in that broader category of work. A Role registration is not an application to every future Opening.

The work

Data Architects shape how an organization represents, connects, governs, and uses data across systems. They translate business processes, information needs, and technical constraints into conceptual, logical, and physical models that teams can implement and evolve.

The work spans relational databases, analytical platforms, data lakes, warehouses, and other fit-for-purpose stores. You assess a fragmented current state, define a target architecture, establish integration and access patterns, and decide where standardization matters most. Good decisions account for data shape, access patterns, scale, consistency, security, resilience, cost, and the realities of migration.

This is a design and decision role. Data Architects work closely with data engineers, database developers, database administrators, security teams, software engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. They make tradeoffs visible, preserve traceability from requirements to implementation, and help teams change an estate without losing integrity or control.

What you'll build

·        Conceptual, logical, and physical data models for operational and analytical systems.

·        Target-state architectures for warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, relational databases, and specialized stores.

·        Canonical models, integration patterns, data contracts, naming standards, and schema conventions.

·        Architecture decision records, transition roadmaps, and current-state or future-state diagrams.

·        Governance-aware designs for metadata, lineage, access, retention, quality, and lifecycle management.

Who you are

You see both the whole information system and the details that make a model implementable. You can identify duplicated concepts, unclear ownership, brittle dependencies, and hidden assumptions, then turn them into decisions that teams can act on.

You are precise without becoming rigid. You listen for how people actually use data, explain tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences, and know when a shared standard creates value and when a local design is the better choice.

What you bring

·        Experience with data modeling, schema design, normalization, dimensional modeling, and model evolution.

·        Judgment across relational, analytical, document, graph, key-value, and vector-capable data stores.

·        Understanding of integration patterns, data contracts, metadata, lineage, data quality, and governed access.

·        Ability to evaluate architecture choices against security, resilience, performance, scalability, cost, and migration risk.

·        Clear visual, written, and verbal communication across engineering, security, product, and business teams.

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Requirements

What openings may require

An opening may emphasize a particular cloud platform, modeling tool, industry data standard, master data discipline, event-driven architecture, or modernization program. Some roles may require hands-on SQL, infrastructure review, or experience guiding implementation across several delivery teams.

AI programs may add requirements for governed knowledge stores, vector-capable retrieval, model-access data boundaries, provenance, or auditability. In those settings, the Data Architect shapes the data and integration architecture while AI engineers remain accountable for model behavior, evaluation, and AI-specific safeguards.

Benefits

Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening.