Principal Solution Architect

Details

At Collibra, our Professional Services team relies on Federal Enterprise Architects to deliver on customer expectations for the services we sell, working directly with customer key projects and executive stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle. Ensuring growth and adoption, Federal Enterprise Architects act as customer champions, ensuring customers are onboarded and realizing value rapidly.

The Federal Enterprise Architect will work closely with customers at various stages of their Data maturity journey, from land to expand to renewals. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large enterprises across the Federal business to support their roadmap and data programs with Collibra.

Responsibilities

• Leading federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned consulting services that adhere to Collibra’s Delivery Models, Engagement Processes, Methodologies, and Artifacts, while ensuring compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
• Providing federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
• Partnering cross-functionally with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to ensure alignment with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identifying opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities to evolving agency mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
• Meeting or exceeding utilization goals in support of federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
• Contributing to the growth of Collibra’s public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies in the areas of Data Governance, Data Management and Data Quality.
• Broad knowledge of data governance, data catalog, data quality, and data privacy platforms.
• An understanding of the leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with cloud platforms, network-based API integration (REST/JSON), and deployment automation.
• Proficiency in Java or Python for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and Job Control tools.
• Required U.S. citizenship, U.S. residency, and active security clearance (Secret/TS/TS-SCI) due to role support for U.S. government business.

Additional Qualifications

• Located in the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements with at least 50% on-site requirement.
• Effective communication skills across business and technical stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset and accountability for customer success.
• Knowledge of data management processes including governance, stewardship, MDM, cataloging, warehousing, ETL, integration, and business rules management.
• Experience leading blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering.
• Proficiency with big data technologies such as Kubernetes, Spark, and Hadoop.
• Familiarity with enterprise security solutions like LDAP or Kerberos.
• Strong skills in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with Collibra or comparable technologies.

Measures of Success

• First month: Enablement in Collibra product offerings, product training, and services portfolio.
• Second month: Learning Collibra solution delivery methodology and participating in delivery.
• Third month: Engaged in delivering Collibra services.

Compensation

• Base salary range of $184,000 - $230,000 per year.
• Eligibility for additional commission-based compensation.
• Salary offers based on experience, skills, and location.
• Additional benefits including equity ownership, bonus potential, Flex Fund stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits program supporting diverse needs.
• Competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Equal opportunity employer with accommodations for applicants.