Senior Enterprise Solution Architect

About the role

The Federal Enterprise Architect at Collibra is responsible for leading federal customer engagements, providing tailored data governance strategies, and partnering with internal teams to support federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.

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.
• Maintaining high utilization rates 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.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies with knowledge in the areas of Data Governance, Data Management or Data Quality.
• 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.
• Linux CLI proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure and platform.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.
• U.S. citizen residing on U.S. soil with active security clearance (Secret/TS/TS-SCI).
• Familiarity in enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and/or Job Control tools.
• Knowledgeable of at least two or three of the following: data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, and business rules management.
• Proficiency in leveraging APIs via Java, Python, or similar scripting language for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, data integration.
• Skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experienced with Collibra or comparable technologies.

Qualifications

• Preferably located in the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements as needed.
• An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders and able to tailor to different audiences.
• Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
• Masterful at troubleshooting, navigating, and facilitating resolution of challenging client connectivity and technical software issues.
• Self-starting and interested in learning new software skills to support intricacies of Collibra’s application stack.
• 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.
• Able to lead blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.

Benefits

Collibra offers a competitive total rewards package, including a standard base salary range of $152,000.00 - $190,000.00 per year, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more. We also provide a diverse range of flexible benefits to support employees' unique needs and life goals.