Data Architect Opportunity at CACI

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full Time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

Join Our Health Surveillance and Analytics Team

CACI is seeking a Data Architect to join our Health Surveillance and Analytics team. As a Data Architect, you will design and maintain data repositories, data lakes, data models, and resilient data ingest pipelines to meet current and future customer needs. Additionally, you will develop data models that enable reporting and analysis on cloud-based analytics platforms.

Location: Remote; Atlanta, GA is preferable (for client site visits)

About the Role

As a Data Architect you will:

• Design and maintain secure data repositories, data lakes, delta lakes, and data models.
• Lead and maintain cloud-based data catalogs for governance and discovery using tools such as Azure Data Catalog and Alation.
• Possess experience in the public or government health industry.
• Ensure data stores allow robust retrieval to support reporting and analytics.
• Develop scalable and resilient data ingest pipelines that allow data streaming and accommodate structures utilized by public health entities for information exchange.
• Monitor performance of ingest pipelines and address bottlenecks/SLA issues.
• Ensure integration with reporting and analytics platforms utilized.
• Devise and implement disaster recovery and data backup plans. Ensure customer SLAs can be met for recovery/failover.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS degree + 15 years in the industry or MA/MS + 12 years in the industry
• 10+ years of experience in designing large data repositories, including application of recognized performance optimization techniques such as partitioning, indexing, and enablement of full-text searches.
• Experience architecting scalable storage solutions using the Azure cloud.
• Experience with Databricks lakehouse including Delta Lake
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL, and Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Demonstrated expertise in building and evolving data models ensuring integrity of data sets.
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing methodologies and data modeling concepts.
• Understanding of data sets collected, transformed, and maintained by public health agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) in English, in a clear, concise manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting cloud-based data repositories (data lakes, etc.) used by epidemiologists, public health data scientists and analysts, and/or public health information systems.

What We Can Offer You

• We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
• We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
• For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.

Company Overview

CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and learning and