Senior Data Architect at Hunter Strategy
Washington, DC
$140,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Washington, DC
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A greenfield federal civilian program needs a senior-level architect to own its entire data dimension, working alongside enterprise and solution architects. The core work involves establishing data standards for a microservices, database-per-service ecosystem, defining a data lake or warehousing layer for analytics and reporting, and setting lifecycle and governance strategies across a large portfolio of SAFe development teams. The role concludes with a documented baseline handoff as the program transitions to sustainment.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 740–5,400
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is remote-first but may require occasional onsite presence in Washington, DC; the CBSA reflects the federal agency's location.
Clearance is not required — the posting gates only on the ability to obtain a Public Trust suitability determination, which is not a security clearance.
This position is contingent upon contract award, with a tentative start date of September 1, 2026.
OpenAPI and gRPC are listed together as API-first integration standards under the Preferred section; both are captured as preferred with each other as an alternative, since the posting treats them as complementary rather than strictly interchangeable — a hiring manager may want familiarity with both.
S3 Glacier is cited as an example of cloud-native storage tiering/archival ('or equivalent'), so it is captured as preferred with the understanding that any comparable cloud archival service would satisfy the requirement.
DAMA CDMP and TOGAF are listed as comparable certifications under Preferred; both are captured as preferred with each other as an alternative.
The alt SOC (15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts) reflects that this role has a strong enterprise architecture and governance dimension alongside the data architecture work, though the primary day-to-day output is data architecture artifacts.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): enterprise data architecture, enterprise data modeling.
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