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# Cloud Data Architect - AWS (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

- **Company:** North Point Technology, LLC
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Audit Trail, Cloud Database, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Transmissions, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Data Streaming, Data Processing, Data Ingestion, Build Management, Data Lakes, Data Lineage, AWS Glue, AWS Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dcjobsite.com/job.asp?id=3316910739&tx=KK3333FFF&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Designing and implementing scalable data lake architectures using Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation
 * Building ETL/ELT pipelines for data ingestion from diverse sources (databases, APIs, streaming, and flat files)
 * Data governance implementation - cataloging, data lineage, access control, and classification/tagging
 * Analytics and query layer development using Amazon Athena, Redshift, and EMR
 * Data protection using FIPS-validated encryption, fine-grained access controls, and audit logging

Preferred Skills/Experience:

 * Hands-on experience within AWS classified (ADC) regions
 * Cross-domain solution (CDS) and cross-domain data transfer workflow design
 * Familiarity with IC data handling, classification/tagging, and compartmentalization policies, * Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance

## Description

North Point Technology is looking to hire a Data Architect to design and build classified data lake solutions within AWS classified (ADC) regions. The qualified candidate must have an active TS/SCI security clearance and will architect scalable, secure data platforms that turn diverse mission data into analytics-ready assets for the intelligence community. The ideal candidate has deep AWS data engineering expertise, a strong grasp of data governance and protection, and a drive to solve hard data problems at scale in support of the mission., This position involves designing and implementing scalable data lake architectures on AWS - including S3, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation - within classified (ADC) regions. Duties include building ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest classified data from diverse sources such as databases, APIs, streaming, and flat files; architecting data governance frameworks for cataloging, lineage, access control, and classification/tagging aligned to IC data handling policies; implementing analytics and query layers with Athena, Redshift, and EMR in isolated environments; designing cross-domain data transfer workflows with appropriate security controls and approval mechanisms; and ensuring end-to-end data protection through FIPS-validated encryption, fine-grained access, compartmentalization, and audit logging.


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