Sr. Federal Enterprise Solution Architect

At Collibra, our Professional Services team relies on Sr. Federal Enterprise Solution 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, Sr. Federal Enterprise Solution Architects act as customer champions, ensuring customers are onboarded and realizing value rapidly. 

The Sr. Federal Enterprise Solution 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. 

• 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.

• 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies, specifically Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, 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.
• Because this role supports the U.S. government business, it is required that this candidate be a U.S. citizen who resides on U.S. soil.

• Located in or around the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements, with an on-site requirement of at least 50%.
• An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders, including a high level of adjustment.
• Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
• Knowledgeable of data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, data warehousing, ETL, data integration, and business rules management.
• Able to work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges, advocating for the importance of preserving data governance and quality.
• Experienced in leading blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.
• Proficient with big data technologies such as Kubernetes, Spark, and Hadoop.
• Familiar with enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Strongly skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experienced with Collibra or comparable technologies.

• Within your first month, you will be enabled in Collibra product offerings, product training, and services portfolio. (Learn)
• Within your second month, you will be learning the Collibra solutions delivery methodology while participating in the delivery of Collibra services. (Participate)
• Within your third month, you will be engaged in delivering Collibra services. (Deliver)

The standard base salary range for this position is $168,000 - $210,000 per year. This position is eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.
In addition to base salary, we offer equity ownership at every level, bonus potential, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.