CPS Solution Architect

Details

At Collibra Public Sector, the Professional Services team relies on Federal Solution Architects to deliver on customer expectations for services, working directly with customer project stakeholders throughout the customer journey. The role focuses on customer onboarding, value realization, growth, adoption, and renewal.

Responsibilities

• Support federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned architectural design and execution of Collibra products in accordance with Collibra Public Sector delivery models, engagement processes, methodologies, and artifacts.
• Ensure compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards, including FedRAMP, FISMA, and GovCloud requirements.
• Provide federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
• Partner with Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to align with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identify opportunities to expand Collibra's footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities with evolving agency mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
• Meet or exceed utilization goals in support of federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
• Contribute to the growth of Collibra's public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.
• Lead blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements-gathering activities.
• Troubleshoot and facilitate resolution of challenging client connectivity and technical software issues.
• Work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges, advocating for data governance and quality.

Requirements

Required

• 5–10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies, with knowledge of data governance, data management, or data quality.
• Understanding of leading PaaS providers, data lakes, databases, and integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
• At least 2 years of experience with cloud platforms, network-based API integration using REST/JSON, and deployment automation.
• Linux CLI proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and platform technologies.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.
• U.S. citizenship, residence on U.S. soil, and an active Secret, TS, or TS-SCI security clearance.
• Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical stakeholders and tailor communication to different audiences.
• Customer-focused approach and accountability for customer success.
• Ability to learn new software skills in support of Collibra's application stack.

Preferred

• Familiarity with enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with data quality, data pipelines, data orchestration, or job control tools.
• Knowledge of at least two or three data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, and business rules management.
• Proficiency in leveraging APIs through Java, Python, or similar scripting languages for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, and data integration.
• Skill in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with Collibra or comparable technologies.

Work Arrangement

The position is remote in the United States. Candidates are preferably located in the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements. The role includes an on-site requirement of up to 50%.

Measures of Success

Within the first 30 days, the employee should be able to:

• Present the services offering to their manager, including the different deliverables and the value provided.
• Present the Customer Journey framework to their manager, including its phases and the roles and responsibilities within each phase.

Benefits

The standard base salary range is $96,000–$120,000 per year. The position is eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on factors including experience, skills, and location.

The total rewards package includes bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401(k) plans, health coverage, and time off.