Principal Solutions Architect / Tech Lead

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Solutions Architect / Tech Lead to design and lead the implementation of enterprise-scale data platforms for a federal agency. This role will serve as the primary data warehouse and data lake architect, driving the design of scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions supporting analytics and visualization platforms.

You will work closely with data engineers, cloud teams, analysts, and stakeholders to build robust data pipelines, optimized data models, and enterprise data architectures in a cloud environment.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years in:
  • Data architecture
  • Data warehousing
  • Data platform design
• Strong experience leading enterprise data initiatives

Expertise in:

• Data modeling (logical + physical)
• Data lake & warehouse architecture
• Performance tuning and optimization

Hands-on with:

• Databricks
• Palantir Foundry (nice to have)

Strong experience with:

• Data lakes
• Data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
• Relational and NoSQL databases