[Hiring] Cloud Data Architect @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

Own your opportunity to turn data into measurable outcomes for our customers’ most complex challenges. As a Data Architect Principal at GDIT, you’ll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward.

As a Data Architect Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). You will play a crucial role in helping combat fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare. This role combines a strong cloud-data engineering skillset with a complement of healthcare interoperability, privacy, and governance requirements.

HOW A DATA ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Design and support the architecture of a program‑wide data warehouse.
• Lead data warehouse project work to ensure requirements, timelines, and deliverables are met.
• Perform testing (unit, validation, regression etc.) and ensure all delivered code meets user specifications.
• Provide technical architecture expertise for planning, estimation, and solution design.
• Work across teams and stakeholders to define requirements and validate testing processes.
• Design scalable, multi‑layer warehouse patterns (landing, transformed, standardized, curated, analytics).
• Model and integrate healthcare data domains using industry standards (X12, ICD‑10, CPT/HCPCS, NDC, DRG, HL7, FHIR).
• Build data structures and features that support FWA analytics with full data lineage.
• Implement HIPAA-compliant governance for PHI/PII, including RBAC/ABAC, masking, row-level security, tagging, auditing, and lineage tracking.
• Contribute to System Design Documents (SDDs), data dictionaries, and source-to-target mappings.
• Architect normalized and denormalized data solutions using design best practices.
• Design and develop scheduling workflows and automation processes.
• Support continuous improvement of processes, tools, and engineering approaches.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable Data Warehouse environments
• Strong understanding of data structures and data modeling.
• Knowledge of Kimball and Inmon data‑warehousing methodologies.
• Proficiency with Snowflake healthcare data warehouse architecture.
• Cloud data engineering experience with Snowflake.
• Experience with data protection, least-privilege access, role- and attribute-based access controls, encryption, audit logging, secure data sharing, retention, and incident-response support.
• Experience with Git-based repositories (Bitbucket, CodeCommit, GitHub).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines across dev/test/prod.
• Experience with cloud data processing services.
• Understanding of serverless architecture.
• Experience with automation testing.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to take ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments using Jira and Confluence.

Requirements

• Experience with healthcare claims data.
• Experience with Hadoop, EMR, Redshift, and Databricks.
• Experience building FWA analytics (anomaly detection, billing-pattern analysis, payment-integrity rules).
• Knowledge of HIPAA governance frameworks for PHI/PII.
• Familiarity with machine-learning and AI concepts.
• Experience designing investigator-ready datasets with full traceability.
• Working knowledge of common healthcare data domains: medical and pharmacy claims, eligibility and enrollment, provider, member/patient, encounters, authorization, and payment data.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
• Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.