Senior Data Architect

Overview

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, an organization’s data has never been a more important aspect in achieving mission and business goals. Our data exploitation experts work with our clients to support their mission and business goals by creating and executing a comprehensive data strategy using the best technology and techniques, given the challenge.

At Steampunk, our goal is to build and execute a data strategy for our clients to coordinate data collection and generation, to align the organization and its data assets in support of the mission, and ultimately to realize mission goals with the strongest effectiveness possible.

For our clients, data is a strategic asset. They are looking to become a facts-based, data-driven, customer-focused organization. To help realize this goal, they are leveraging visual analytics platforms to analyze, visualize, and share information. At Steampunk you will design and develop solutions to high-impact, complex data problems, working with the best and data practitioners around. Our data exploitation approach is tightly integrated with Human-Centered Design and DevSecOps.

Contributions

We are looking for seasoned Data Solution Architect to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, data models, visualizations, and more! The Data Solution Architect needs to have excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving. This role spans the spectrum of data capabilities, from data vision and strategy all the way through data science.

• BI and Data Visualization contributions include assessing, understanding, and designing reports, selecting BI tools, designing dynamic dashboards
• Addressing technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products
• Lead the consistent use of customer facing data resources across USAID tools to support private sector engagement
• Define and manage the data assets from private sector partnerships and engagements 
• Apply and mentor others on advanced data governance theories, principles, and concepts
• Maintain the quality and trust of data provided to our internal and external customers, coordinating corrections when needed
• Identify and support business needs and recommend comprehensive solutions that integrate with existing data and technical solutions
• Serve as a strategic advisor in all matters related to data on behalf of USAID stakeholders and partners
• Work cooperatively with all stakeholders to ensure project success
• Key must have skill sets – broad understanding of data exploitation lifecycle and capabilities
• Support an Agile software development lifecycle
• You will contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice!

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience
• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
• Experience working with USAID data sets, including the public private partnership (PPP) data as well as FACTs Info data 
• Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis
• Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment
• Experience with data modeling tools and process
• Experience aggregating results and/or compiling information for reporting from multiple datasets
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models

About steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.