Senior Data Architect

Overview DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and validation of the enterprise data architecture for DCIPS Future, a Department of War (DoW) modernization program supporting Casualty and Mortuary Affairs operations across the Military Services. The Senior Data Architect will maintain secure, reliable, and scalable data architectures within AWS GovCloud environments authorized for applicable Impact Levels, including IL2, IL4, and IL5. The architect will work with mission stakeholders, system architects, cybersecurity personnel, database administrators, developers, and testers to ensure data integrity, availability, privacy, and accurate inter-Service data exchange. This position is remote within the United States. Periodic travel may be required. Duties & Responsibilities The Senior Data Architect will: Perform an initial architecture assessment and develop a recovery plan that inventories existing artifacts, identifies gaps and risks, establishes an authoritative baseline, and prioritizes corrective actions. Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Define schemas, entity relationships, business rules, data standards, and validation requirements. Maintain data dictionaries, metadata, lineage records, source-to-target mappings, and data-flow diagrams. Ensure alignment among mission workflows, application functions, databases, APIs, interfaces, and reporting requirements. Establish data-architecture governance