Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, Federal

About the role

As a Federal Enterprise Architect on Collibra’s Customer Solutions and Services team, you will deliver mission-aligned consulting services directly to federal customers, working with key projects and executive stakeholders throughout the entire project lifecycle. You will act as a customer champion, ensuring rapid onboarding and value realization while supporting agencies at various stages of their data maturity journey—from initial adoption to expansion and renewals. This in-person role, based in Fayetteville, NC, offers the opportunity to work with large federal enterprises to advance their data programs and roadmaps using Collibra’s solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead federal customer engagements by delivering consulting services aligned with Collibra’s Delivery Models, Engagement Processes, Methodologies, and Artifacts, ensuring compliance with government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
• Provide federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to align with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identify opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities to evolving mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
• Meet or exceed utilization goals to support federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
• Contribute to the growth of Collibra’s public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.
• Troubleshoot, navigate, and facilitate resolution of challenging client connectivity and technical software issues.
• Lead blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.
• Advocate for the importance of preserving data governance and quality while working with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies with expertise in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Quality.
• Understanding of leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
• 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 technologies.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Kubernetes, Spark, and Hadoop.
• U.S. citizenship, residency on U.S. soil, and active security clearance (Secret/TS/TS-SCI) required due to federal government support.
• Familiarity with enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and/or Job Control tools.
• Knowledge of at least two or three of the following: data management processes (data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, business rules management).
• Proficiency in leveraging APIs via Java, Python, or similar scripting languages for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, and data integration.
• Skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with Collibra or comparable technologies.
• Based within daily commuting distance of Fayetteville, NC, with the ability to work on-site at the customer's facility five days per week.

Skills

• Effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders, able to tailor messaging to different audiences.
• Customer-focused with a strong sense of personal accountability for customer success.
• Self-starting and eager to learn new software skills to support the intricacies of Collibra’s application stack.
• Ability to lead workshops, gather requirements, and align stakeholders on data solutions.

Measures of Success

• First month: Complete Collibra’s onboarding and product certification process, familiarize yourself with active federal customer engagements and their data maturity stages, and establish relationships with key cross-functional partners (Sales, Customer Engineering, Product).
• Third month: Take full ownership of assigned federal customer engagements, deliver consulting services aligned with Collibra’s delivery models and federal compliance standards, and identify early expansion opportunities tied to agency modernization mandates or evolving data governance needs.
• Sixth month: Operate as a trusted advisor to federal agency stakeholders, consistently meet or exceed utilization targets, contribute to at least one account expansion, and bring repeatable delivery artifacts or best practices back to the broader Public Sector professional services team.

Pay

The standard base salary range for this position is $152,000.00 - $190,000.00 per year. This role is also eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers consider factors such as experience, skills, and location.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including bonus potential and equity for eligible roles.
• Flex Fund monthly stipend for personalized benefits.
• Pension/401k plans.
• Comprehensive health coverage.
• Flexible time-off policies.
• Inclusive workplace culture with programs supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.