Senior Enterprise Solution Architect

Details

Collibra's Customer Solutions and Services team is seeking a Federal Enterprise Architect to deliver customer-focused consulting services for U.S. federal agencies. The role works with customers throughout their data maturity journey, supporting data governance programs, modernization efforts, adoption, expansion, and renewals. The position requires collaboration with customer project teams, executive stakeholders, and Collibra's Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned consulting services in accordance with Collibra's 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 cross-functionally to align with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identify opportunities to expand Collibra's footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities with 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.

Requirements

• 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 command-line 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 active security clearance at the Secret, TS, or TS-SCI level.
• Familiarity with enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with data quality, data pipelines, data orchestration, and/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 a similar scripting language for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, and data integration.
• Ability to develop functional and technical specifications.
• Experience with Collibra or comparable technologies.
• Effective communication skills across business and technical stakeholders.
• Customer-focused approach and accountability for customer success.
• Ability to work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges.
• Self-directed approach and willingness to learn new software skills supporting Collibra's application stack.

Measures of Success

• Within the first month: complete Collibra's onboarding and product certification process, become familiar with active federal customer engagements and their data maturity stages, and establish relationships with key cross-functional partners.
• Within the third month: take ownership of assigned federal customer engagements, deliver consulting services aligned with Collibra's delivery models and federal compliance standards, and identify early expansion opportunities.
• Within the sixth month: operate as a trusted advisor to federal agency stakeholders, meet or exceed utilization targets, contribute to at least one account expansion, and provide repeatable delivery artifacts or best practices to the broader Public Sector professional services team.

Compensation

The standard base salary range is $152,000–$190,000 per year. The position is not eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on factors including experience, skills, and location. The total rewards package may include bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401(k) plans, health coverage, and time off.

Benefits

Collibra offers flexible benefits designed to support employees and their loved ones through diverse circumstances and life events. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations for applicants who require them.