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# Data Architect (AWS, Data Lake)

- **Company:** Open Data Watch, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Apache HTTP Server, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Hadoop, IBM InfoSphere (ETL Tools), PostgreSQL, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/data-architect-aws-data-lake-washington-dc--983b6b20-826d-4db1-872a-b18d4058f5fd

## About the Role

DataArchitect Data Modeling Tool, Data Lake, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Federal Government, PostgreSQL, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Apache, Data Modeling, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Lake, You are a data architect who sees the whole system and cares how every piece fits. You model with precision, you explain a design to engineers and executives alike, and you leave a data estate better than you found it. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task., * 5+ years of data architecture and data modeling experience

 * Bachelor's degree
 * Schema design across a data lake and relational stores: S3 with Apache Iceberg tables, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB
 * AWS cloud data architecture (Glue, EMR, Lambda)
 * Data governance and security (Apache Ranger or comparable access controls)
 * Data modeling tools (for example ER/Studio or IBM InfoSphere)
 * Stakeholder communication with technical and non-technical audiences
 * Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred

 * Master's degree in a relevant field
 * Hadoop or Spark
 * Data-lifecycle breadth: data engineering, data product, data science, or data management
 * Federal information technology experience
 * Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling

## Description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution., Your first assignment is to shape the data architecture and data models for a large federal data-lake platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS): S3, Apache Iceberg, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are., * Clean data models and schemas across the lake and the relational stores (S3 with Apache Iceberg tables, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB).

 * The architecture that brings the data together: you design the models and schemas that new and migrated sources land in, and you restructure the existing ecosystem to cut redundancy and protect integrity and accessibility, all under governed access.
 * In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up., * Deep data modeling and schema design across a data lake and relational stores on AWS.
 * The architect's toolkit around it: cloud data services, governed access, modeling tools, and the judgment to restructure a live ecosystem without breaking it.
 * The communication to carry a design past technical and non-technical stakeholders, in a regulated environment where accuracy and auditability are not optional.