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Federal Principal Architect
| Company | Collibra |
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| Location | Washington, DC, USA |
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| Salary | $184000 – $230000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies in the areas of Data Governance, Data Management and Data Quality.
- Broad knowledge of data governance, data catalog, data quality, and data privacy platforms
- An understanding of the leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies
- A minimum of 2 years of experience working with cloud platforms, network-based API integration (REST/JSON), and deployment automation.
- Proficiency in Java or Python for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
- Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and Job Control tools.
- Because this role supports the U.S. government business, it is required that this candidate be a U.S. citizen who resides on U.S. soil.
Responsibilities
- Leading federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned consulting services that adhere to Collibra’s Delivery Models, Engagement Processes, Methodologies, and Artifacts, while ensuring compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
- Providing federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
- Partnering cross-functionally with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to ensure alignment with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
- Identifying opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities to evolving agency mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
- Meeting or exceeding utilization goals in support of federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
- Contributing to the growth of Collibra’s public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Located in the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements, with an on-site requirement of at least 50%.
- An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders, including a high level of adjustment.
- Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
- Knowledgeable of data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, data warehousing, ETL, data integration, and business rules management.
- Able to work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges, advocating for the importance of preserving data governance and quality.
- Experienced in leading blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.
- Proficient with big data technologies such as Kubernetes, Spark, and Hadoop.
- Familiar with enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
- Strongly skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
- Experienced with Collibra or comparable technologies.
