Digital Systems Architect

About the position

Evans & Chambers Technology is seeking a highly motivated Digital Systems Architect to join our team! Evans & Chambers partners with the US national defense community to create fully integrated, resilient, and innovative digital solutions that enable them to make smart decisions in real-time. We work with our customers on everything from conquering their data to improving and safeguarding IT infrastructure. Our ultimate goal? To enhance our nation's ability to identify, address, and act - no matter what challenges arise. The Digital Systems Architect will work in an agile and transformational environment in support of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Operations Directorate at part of the Joint Fires Division at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii to store and secure a variety of data, and make sure that the data are available to authorized users. As an integrated digital approach, explore possibilities and develop innovative solutions in a virtual environment.

Responsibilities

• Work across all USINDOPACOM directorates and special staff to understand the data resident within the Command, the types of data most frequently used, and for what purpose.
• Work within Directorate with Branch and Division leadership supporting positional and principal Branch duties to achieve agile and transformational objectives.
• Provide ontology and data quality for all USINDOPACOM data.
• Advise in the evolution of an INDOPACIFIC data strategy and associated policy.
• Utilize industry standard communication and visualization tools to visualize and communicate complex quantitative information and analysis.
• Interpret and communicate insights and findings from analysis to customer and other stakeholders with required/appropriate documentation.
• Tag data assets (i.e. operational, intelligence, enterprise, business activities) to support search and discovery of existing data.
• Facilitate and develop relationships across the Geographic Combatant Command CDOs, Combatant Commands CDO as well as the Joint Staff CDO.
• Support USINDOPACOM's responsibilities with respect to planning and data management for risk and vulnerability assessments.
• Communicate effectively verbally and in writing to provide information, articles, written reports, and presentations to include delivering executive summaries to Branch Lead, Division Chief, Directorate flag and general officers (FO/GO) and Senior Executive Service (SES) level officials.
• Apply analytics and customer segmentation techniques within technical functions.
• Maintain, move, and manipulate data between applications, using appropriate software (e.g., Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, R, Python, Kibana and others as technology evolves).
• Identify meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources.
• Compile reports, charts, and tables based on established statistical methods.
• Prepare conclusions and predictions based on data summaries.

Requirements

• Experience with MIL-STD data formats; USMTF/OTH, CMF, TACTICAL DATA LINKS/JREAP and VMF especially working between Link networks and with a strong working datalink background and superior understanding of manipulation and transmission of information amongst datalink systems.
• 4+ years of experience as a data architect, data engineer, or software engineer with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering or related field; or Master's + 2 years' experience.
• 4+ years of experience with database design and implementation.
• Experience in developing with APIs.
• Experience with SQL, data analysis, and data validation.
• Experience with Python and Pyspark.
• Experience with building scalable ETL/ELT workflows for reporting and analytics.
• Experience with creating solutions within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Ability to develop scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats and support project team to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and creativity in developing and exploiting alternative sources of non-traditional information for DOD customers.
• Strong oral presentation, data visualization, and writing skills.
• Must have an active Top-Secret security clearance and be SCI eligible. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a Top-Secret Clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with USINDOPACOM HQ, the AOR, and associated intelligence/operational missions.
• Experience with intelligence community systems and tools.
• Previous experience working in a 4-star Headquarters.
• Experience with AWS, Java, C++, APIs, SOAP, XML, JSON, and/or JavaScript.
• Experience with developing architecture, ETL data pipelines, and data models.
• Experience with data wrangling.
• Experience with using database software, including Databricks or Snowflake.
• Experience with writing code using Python and Javascript.
• Experience in using and developing with Microsoft 365 data-centric products, including Dataverse or Power BI.
• Experience with Agile engineering practices.
• Knowledge of Qlik.
• Knowledge of data lake design.