Data Architect
About the Role
Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Data Architect to join a team supporting a client with data engineering and operations, software engineering, security engineering, DevOps engineering, application development, data science, and program management. The role involves supporting data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks, as well as communicating and collaborating across organizational boundaries, including other contractor teams, client staff, and external stakeholders.
Why Acuity?
At Acuity, we’re building more than careers—we’re building a place people genuinely love to work. Enjoy a strong work-life balance, competitive compensation, health/dental/vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, and up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications, plus up to $3,000 for degree-seeking programs. Recognized as a Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal for 8+ years and named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post (2022–2025), Acuity is a technology consulting firm supporting federal agencies with innovative technical leadership.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure and data management.
- Demonstrated experience with multiple OS environments including Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud environments, including AWS.
- Demonstrated experience with development environments including AWS, Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS), Cloudera, Spark, Presto, SQL, and NoSQL.
- Demonstrated experience conducting data processing activities.
- Experience working with Python.
- Demonstrated experience building and executing ETL pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience with integrating data flows with industry standard systems such as Niagara Falls.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and be a proactive problem solver.
- Experience providing clear and concise communications for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of targeting workflows, tools, and environments.
- Experience with Large Language Models and agentic workflows.
- Experience with graphical databases such as Neo4J.
- Experience working with a hard target mission area.
Clearance Requirements
TS/SCI with Poly
Pay
Min USD $160,000.00/Yr. – Max USD $210,000.00/Yr. The salary range represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this role, with final determination based on factors including qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, and applicable labor categories.