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Location: MCLEAN, VA, US
Date Posted: 2025-08-08
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Enterprise Architect
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance. This position will either be in Bethesda, MD or McLean, VA.
SAIC is seeking a Chief Data Architect to define a Big Data implementation framework; translate mission needs into Big Data system, analytic, and visualization tools requirements; and work with multi-disciplinary teams to design, guide engineering solutions, and then explore, examine, and visualize data to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data; responsible for managing digital data that comes from many different data providers; consists of a variety of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data types; and has an enormous volume, varying velocity (periodic static documents to real-time data feeds), and is rapidly growing. Duties will include the design, development, test, deployment, and use of associated advanced analytic and data science tools including, data visualization, link analysis, correlation, sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning, and statistical methods to prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modeling.
Qualifications
Required Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data analytics, software engineering, or related technical field.
  • A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with Big Data applications, such as Hadoop, and associated applications (e.g., administration, CM, monitoring, performance tuning, etc.)
Desired:
  • Experience working in a government mission Data Exploitation environment (e.g., acquiring data, storing data, processing data, analyzing data, visualizing data, turning data into intelligence products, disseminating data, and knowledge management).
  • Experience supporting a cloud computing environment (e.g., private, hybrid, and/or public).
  • Experience leading and managing cross-functional technology team.
  • Experience leading major programming/scripting languages like Java, Linux, C+ +, PHP, Ruby, Python and/or R.
  • Experience working with ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, and/or Pentaho.
  • Experience designing solutions for multiple large data warehouses with cluster and parallel architecture as well as high-scale or distributed platforms.
  • Experience in the research and development of applications/services in disciplines such as: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Conceptual Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Predictive Modeling, and Hypothesis testing.
Clearance:
  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

  • Industries

    Software Development

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