Principal Data Architect

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🌲 North Carolina, Pennsylvania, +2 more states – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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BlueFlag LLP

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

🏛️ Government

B2B • Recruitment • Government

BlueFlag LLP is a company that specializes in providing talent and technology services with a strong focus on project management and talent development. Their aim is to help organizations succeed by offering solutions such as talent sourcing through their Human Algorithm™, project staffing, team assessments, and fractional staffing for efficient part-time roles. Additionally, BlueFlag LLP provides project and program management services, helping clients manage important initiatives and implement tools and processes effectively. They serve a broad spectrum of industries, including government services, insisting on their commitment to public and private sector partnerships. With a foundation built on professionalism, experience, and work ethic, BlueFlag LLP seeks to transform visionary ideas into tangible developments.

📋 Description

• Work with customers daily by leading architecture discussions, briefing VA stakeholders, and turning needs into clear designs and decisions • Lead and mentor senior data engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on problem solving • Set architecture and standards for ingestion, storage, modeling, and serving with Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and Delta Lake • Architect the platform's move to Azure Commercial, using Databricks as the engineering platform and Unity Catalog for governance • Design metadata-driven frameworks supporting thousands of tables across batch, incremental, CDC, and streaming patterns • Serve reporting and machine learning workloads through Synapse Dedicated Pool, Databricks SQL, Power BI, and model training pipelines • Protect PHI and PII through access policy, masking, and ATO support under HIPAA and federal security requirements • Write architecture and technical approach sections for proposals

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in data engineering and data architecture, starting as a hands-on data engineer, with 5+ years as a lead or principal architect • Proven leadership of engineering teams, including mentoring senior engineers and setting technical direction • A demonstrated history of customer-facing work: leading architecture discussions, briefing executives, and writing for technical and non-technical readers • Expert, hands-on cloud data engineering and data warehousing on Azure: Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics (including Synapse Dedicated Pool), Databricks, Delta Lake, and ADLS Gen2 • Hands-on Unity Catalog design: catalogs and grants, attribute-based access control, row filters and column masks, and lineage • Design of lakehouse (medallion) architectures, data warehouse models, and metadata-driven frameworks across thousands of tables • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (PySpark) • Experience with CDC, streaming, and incremental load patterns (e.g., Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka) • Experience migrating large on-premises data warehouses to the cloud, including parallel runs and reconciliation • Experience with Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code for data platforms (e.g., Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles) • Working knowledge of HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and FISMA requirements for PHI and PII • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field • Must be a citizen of the United States • Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance • Must be eligible to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Generous annual leave and paid holidays • Comprehensive group health and dental plans • 401(k) with company match • Life insurance and AD&D coverage • Ongoing training and professional development opportunities