Company: General Dynamics IT Location: Washington, DC Employment Type: Full Time Date Posted: 05/11/2026 Job Categories:
Engineering, Information Technology
Job Description
Senior Cloud Data Architect
At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud solutions and provide meaningful work. Your work will be an important part of transforming our clients for the modern age and help them face any obstacle.
We are seeking a highly skilledSenior Cloud Data Architectto guide the design, architecture, and technical strategy for our enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Object data cloud data environment. This is a seniorlevel, customer-facing, highvisibility role central to our modernization efforts. You will shape the architecture supporting complex data ecosystems, provide leadership across engineering workstreams, and ensure the platform evolves in a scalable, secure, and highperforming direction.
If you excel at solving complex architectural challenges, driving consistency across teams, and influencing data strategy at scale, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact.
HOW A CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE ARCHITECT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
Design, create, and maintain data architecture artifacts
Create and maintain an architectural roadmap for the Data Management and Analytics capabilities including support for generative and agentic AI
Architect enterpriselevel Snowflake data warehouse solutions, including conceptual, logical, and physical models that support analytics, operational reporting, modernization and AI initiatives
Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, ensuring architectural alignment and modeldriven engineering throughout ETL/ELT pipelines
Define data architecture patterns, standards, and best practicesto ensure consistency, scalability, and performance across the platform
Lead design decisionsrelated to schema architecture, data distribution, performance optimization, security, governance, and cost management in Snowflake
Collaborate with Program Management, Agile PMO, ETL development, DevSecOps, DBA, user support, and analytics teamsto guide solution design and ensure alignment with enterprise and customer goals
Oversee ingestion, transformation, and integration of complex healthcare datasets, ensuring data quality and metadata completeness
Work hands-on in Snowflake, including DDL design, warehouse configuration, performance tuning, and workload optimization
Leverage and advise on usage of related AWS data services(e.g., Lambda, S3, Glue, Step Functions, IAM) to support endtoend data pipelines
Guide automation approachesfor data integration, testing, metadata capture, lineage, and platform operations
Assess and troubleshoot high-complexity issues, providing direction and technical resolutions across teams
Support roadmap planningby providing architectural insight, identifying technical risks, and shaping long-term data strategy
Mentor and develop data engineers, administrators and modelers, setting the technical tone and raising capability across the program
May serve as a technical lead and/or manager over multiple cloud data engineers / teams
WHAT YOULL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Required Education:
BS degree
Required Experience:
10 years of experience in cloud data architecture, data warehousing, data modeling and data analytics in a complex data environment
Required Technical Skills:
Extensive hands-on Snowflake experience, with strong skills in implementing logical and physical models, and leveraging Snowflake tools, including Cortex AI.
Proven leadership in large-scale cloud data environments, preferably within AWS
Deep experience with ETL/ELT frameworks and modeldriven engineering approaches
Proficiency in SQL, data transformation design, and performance optimization
Experience working with cloudnative architectures, modern data integration patterns and AI solution development
Strong expertise in automation and scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python, PySpark)
Previous experience supporting U.S. Government Federal Agencies is highly desired.
Required Skills and Abilities:
Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience delivering presentations to diverse audiences at various levels of an organization
Experience managing, mentoring, and developing engineering staff
Preferred Skills and Experience:
Strong proficiency with SQL and data transformation techniques
Familiarity with Agile / Scrum delivery environments
Preferred Certifications:
Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect a plus
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) a plus
AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty a plus
Clearance: Candidates must be eligible to obtain federal public trust security clearance
Visa Sponsorship Will Not Be Provided for This Position
Location:Hybrid and requires 3 days per week at the customer site in SW DC.
What can GDIT offer you:
401K with company match.
Customizable health benefits packages.
Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators.
Internal mobility team is dedicated to helping you own your career.