Sr. Data Architect

About the Role

You own the end-to-end data strategy for aviation sustainment, shaping how information moves from initial capture to final consumption. This role blends careful planning with implementation, ensuring data structures remain reliable and adaptable as missions evolve. You will guide technical landscapes, balancing strategic vision with hands-on engineering execution. Your decisions will affect both immediate delivery outcomes and long-term platform evolution, balancing current needs with future growth. You will orchestrate integration patterns so services communicate reliably using standards that simplify future modifications. Your guidance will implement governance rules, controlling access, preserving data quality, and supporting trustworthy reporting for decision-makers. You will champion pragmatic experimentation, testing approaches in constrained environments before broader adoption. Leading these efforts demands a balance of strategic vision and technical depth.

About the Role

• Ownership of end-to-end data strategy for aviation sustainment, defining how information moves from capture to consumption.
• Balancing strategic vision with hands-on engineering to ensure data structures remain reliable and adaptable.
• Guiding technical landscapes to balance immediate delivery with long-term platform evolution.
• Orchestrating integration patterns using standards that simplify future modifications.
• Implementing governance rules to control access, preserve data quality, and support trustworthy reporting.
• Championing pragmatic experimentation through testing in constrained environments.
• Leading efforts that demand strategic vision and technical depth.

What You'll Do

• Design scalable storage foundations while aligning schemas with strict regulatory and operational needs.
• Map intricate data flows across complex systems and construct pipelines that handle this complexity without sacrificing clarity.
• Orchestrate integration patterns essential for reliable service communication using standards that simplify future modifications.
• Implement governance rules as a core duty, controlling access, preserving data quality, and supporting trustworthy reporting for decision-makers.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to refine models, identify bottlenecks, and improve throughput across critical workflows.
• Translate mission requirements into technical specifications that guide delivery teams without dictating every line of code.
• Collaborate with security colleagues to embed protections early, ensuring designs meet assessment expectations from the outset.
• Champion pragmatic experimentation by testing approaches in constrained environments before broader adoption.
• Lead these efforts demanding a balance of strategic vision and technical depth to shape the technical landscape.
• Ensure data strategies align with rigorous operational demands of aviation sustainment missions.
• Maintain adaptability of data structures so they remain reliable as missions evolve over time.
• Accelerate operational effectiveness through agile, commercial-grade capabilities that drive measurable mission success.

Requirements

You must hold experience spanning 3-5 years demonstrating consistent work with complex data structures in demanding contexts. Proven ability handling aviation sustainment data is required, and familiarity with related domains and their unique constraints is essential. You must understand federal acquisition processes, showing how contracts and policies shape technical decision-making. Skill in digital transformation initiatives is necessary, using emerging methods to modernize legacy information landscapes. Managing enterprise-level infrastructures is a core capability, requiring balance of performance, security, and operational resilience. This is a "player-coach" role requiring high-level strategic planning alongside hands-on engineering execution. You must engage with emerging technologies that could reshape how aviation data is shared and used. SteerBridge creates meaningful career pathways for veterans, military spouses, and professionals who share their passion.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience with complex data structures in demanding contexts.
• Proven ability handling aviation sustainment data.
• Familiarity with related domains and their unique constraints.
• Understanding of federal acquisition processes and how contracts and policies shape technical decision-making.
• Skill in digital transformation initiatives to modernize legacy information landscapes.
• Managing enterprise-level infrastructures balancing performance, security, and operational resilience.
• "Player-coach" capability for strategic planning and hands-on engineering execution.
• Engagement with emerging technologies that could reshape aviation data sharing and usage.

Nice to Have

Experience with emerging technologies that could reshape how aviation data is shared and used is valued.

Practical Notes

This role is based in Vienna, VA, and requires presence in that location. The engagement is full-time, with compensation specified at $180,000.00 per year. Veterans in leadership roles provide a problem-solving mindset and unwavering commitment to excellence that elevates every project at SteerBridge. The company delivers innovative, mission-focused solutions to the U.government and commercial clients using deep expertise in federal acquisition, digital transformation, and emerging technologies.

Data Architect at Steerbridge.