Cloud Data Architect

General Dynamics Information Technology

. The CMM Data Architect will work as part of an agile development team to build and support the modernization of enterprise-class software applications.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $157,250 - $212,750 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformMS SQL ServerMySQLNoSQLOracleSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The CMM Data Architect will work as part of an agile development team to build and support the modernization of enterprise-class software applications.
The successful candidate should be capable of architecting and developing cloud database infrastructure and support the migration of legacy systems to the cloud.
The duties and assignments include translating high-level requirements into data storage solutions; creating PoCs and/or prototypes to evaluate various cloud database technologies, architecting and implementing cloud-based database solutions on various platforms; developing and supporting a migration plan from legacy on-premises database to multi-cloud/hybrid cloud platforms.
The Data Architect will lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and high-performing database architectures across cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments in support of CMSO modernization initiatives.
This role provides expert-level guidance for migrating legacy workloads to commercial cloud platforms and develops Architecture Design Documents that reflect best practices aligned with the Government’s selected Cloud Service Providers.
The Data Architect will work closely with enterprise teams to shape database standards, assess return on investment, and recommend cost-effective, performance-optimized solutions.
The architect supports both strategic and operational activities, including configuring cloud databases, enabling diagnostics, optimizing performance, and implementing threat-driven security settings.
Responsibilities also include monitoring database usage, addressing replication strategies, and advising on anticipated growth to inform resource planning.
Additional tasks include provisioning relational databases, managing server-level operations such as scaling, restoring, or deleting instances, and configuring geo-replication and monitoring metrics.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of general experience in information systems; 10+ years of specialized experience
Experience designing and implementing a high-availability mission critical system with zero down time
Experience architecting Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI cloud platform
Experience data modeling a large multi-tenant database system
Experience with relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) database technologies
Knowledge of Data Bricks, Snowflake and other cloud offering
Hands on experience with scaling databases to the needs of the customer while maintaining data boundaries
Data migration experience from distributed to single database
Installing and maintaining the performance of database servers
Developing processes for optimizing database security
Setting and maintaining database standards
Managing database access
Managing performance tuning of database systems
Installing, upgrading, and managing database applications
Performing installation and maintenance of data into primary and third-party applications
Provide technical support and training for team members
Performing feasibility studies, cost/benefit analysis, and user training in response to user requests
Performing team leader functions for projects involving multiple parties: managing deadlines; providing status reports; facilitating final testing and project sign-off as needed
Backing up local databases and file directories applications
Diagnosing and troubleshooting database errors
Recommending and implementing emerging database technologies
Creating and managing database reports, visualizations, and dashboards
Creating automation for repeating database tasks
Assisting with SSL cert installation & troubleshooting
Perform complete database environment installation, configuration, on-going administration support (IBM Informix, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle)
Non-relational DB experience Cloud DB solutions like (DynamoDB, CosmosDB, GraphDB, DocumentDB etc.)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
dental plan options
a vision plan
a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud database infrastructuredata modelingrelational database technologiesnon-relational database technologiesdatabase performance tuningdata migrationdatabase security optimizationdatabase standards managementdatabase installation and maintenanceautomation of database tasks

Soft Skills

team leadershiptechnical supportcommunicationproject managementuser trainingfeasibility studiescost/benefit analysisstatus reportingcollaborationproblem-solving