Expert Data Architect

at  ANSER

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

A data architect is an individual who is responsible for designing, creating, deploying, and managing data architecture. Data architects define how the data will be stored, consumed, integrated, and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing that data in some way. A data architect enforces/assists in enforcing adherence to GEOINT data standards and assures data assets are in line with the defined GEOINT data architecture. Typically, a data architect maintains the metadata registry, oversees data management, and optimizes databases and/or all data sources.

• Support the Warfighter Support Office efforts to bring the latest relevant datasets to the warfighters’ mission(s).
• Implement/integrate data/content architecture with Odyssey data architecture.
• Coordinate with Chief Engineer, Lead Data engineer, Mission Tradecraft developer(s), data owners and capabilities engineers to determine warfighters mission needs and the interoperability with warfighter mission systems and applications.
• Coordinate with multiple NGA systems entities, including (but not limited to) Open Data Store (ODS), OCONUS Data Center (ODC), NSG Consolidated Libraries (NCL), NGA Gateway, GRiD, and IC GIS Portal.
• Coordinate with Warfighter Support Office deployed Capabilities Leads, GEOINT Expeditionary (GEO-X) Embeds, NSG Data owners and NGA Data Corps.
• Design and deliver operations research applications (databases, websites, tools, and products) that are geospatially enabled to support a multitude of intelligence issues.
• Incorporate the latest methodologies such Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Harvesting and Content Curation to modernize the Warfighter Support Office’s data pipeline.
• Develop automation to streamline GA and IA processes to improve consistency, quality and availability of GEOINT content across multiple security domains.
• Support cross domain data transfer.
• Develop PL/SQL, stored procedures, and extract, transform, load (ETL) scripts to support this analytics application.
• Must be familiar with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) best practices for code build and deployments, DevOPS, SAFe AGILE, and/or any NGA-sponsored agile methodologies.
• Document database design and develop optimum data ingest techniques from multiple data sources.