Federal Enterprise Solution Architect

Joining Collibra’s Public Sector team

At Collibra Public Sector, our Professional Services team relies on Federal Solution Architects to deliver on customer expectations for the services we sell, working directly with customer key projects stakeholders throughout the entire customer journey. Ensuring growth, adoption and renewal, Federal Solution Architects act as customer champions, ensuring customers are onboarded and realizing value rapidly.

Federal Enterprise Solution Architects at Collibra Public Sector are responsible for

• Supporting federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned architectural design and execution of Collibra products that adhere to Collibra Public Sector’s Delivery Models, Engagement Processes, Methodologies, and Artifacts, while ensuring compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
• Providing federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
• Partnering cross-functionally with Collibra Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to ensure alignment with federal acquisition cycles and stakeholder priorities.
• Identifying opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint within agencies by aligning product capabilities to evolving agency mandates, modernization efforts, and compliance requirements.
• Meeting or exceeding utilization goals in support of federal client success, long-term program engagement, and repeatable delivery excellence.
• Contributing to the growth of Collibra’s public sector services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.

You have

• 5-10 years of consulting experience supporting U.S. federal agencies with knowledge in the areas of Data Governance, Data Management or Data Quality.
• An understanding of the leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with cloud platforms, network-based API integration (REST/JSON), and deployment automation.
• Linux CLI proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure and platform.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, and Hadoop.
• Because this role supports the U.S. government business, it is required that this candidate be a U.S. citizen who resides on U.S. soil and holds active security clearance (Secret/TS/TS-SCI).
• Familiarity in enterprise security solutions such as LDAP or Kerberos.
• Hands-on experience with Data Quality, Data Pipelines, Data Orchestration, and/or Job Control tools.
• Knowledgeable of at least least two or three of the following: data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, and business rules management
• Proficiency in leveraging APIs via Java, Python, or similar scripting language for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments. 
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, data integration.
• Skilled in developing functional and technical specifications.
• Experienced with Collibra or comparable technologies.

You are

• Preferably located in the Washington, D.C. metro area to support in-person federal customer engagements, with an on-site requirement of up to 25%.
• An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders and able to tailor to different audiences.
• Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
• Masterful at troubleshooting, navigating, and facilitating resolution of challenging client connectivity and technical software issues. 
• Self-starting and interested in learning new software skills to support intricacies of Collibra’s application stack. 
• Able to work with business and IT owners to identify and align on solutions to data challenges, advocating for the importance of preserving data governance and quality.
• Able to lead blueprinting, design workshops, and requirements gathering activities.

Measures of success

• Within the first 30 days of employment, be able to
• Present the services offering to your manager understanding the different deliverables and the value provided.
• Present the Customer Journey framework to your manager understanding the different phases and roles and responsibilities within each phase.
• Clearily understand the roles and responsibilities of all delivery personnel including an Engagement Manager, Solution Architect, Account Program Manager, Premium Support Engineer, Sales Engineer and Account Executive.
• Work with the account team to build project plans aligned to each assigned account.
• Have a baseline understanding of the Collibra product and associated features.
• Within the first 60 days of employment
• Clearly understand and present the functions and features of the product with your manager.
• Show an intermediate understanding of the product with the ability to architect solutions.
• Within the first 90 days of employment be able to
• Execute on customer project plans based on product knowledge for assigned customers.
• Understand and convey to customers how Collibra's suite product capabilities and the projects being delivered provide value to customers.
• Design architectural solutions aligned with customer initiatives.

Compensation for this role

The standard base salary range for this position is $128,000 - 160,000 per year. This position is eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.

In addition to base salary, we offer a competitive total rewards package, including bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.