Lead Data Architect

Overview

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.

We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.

This position supports the Foreign Military Sales – Army Case Execution System (FMS-ACES) Product Office. FMS-ACES is the first Defense Business System (DBS) program in the DoDI 5000.87 Software Acquisition Pathway, within PEO Enterprise, located in the Defense Integrated Business Systems (DIBS) portfolio.

FMS-ACES is a cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) providing a user-centric journey design that will modernize the Army’s FMS case execution and management processes from end to end. By stream-lining business processes, data standardization, integrated through state-of-the-art interface management, FMS-ACES will provide accurate case management and business analytics enabling real-time, accurate and informed data-drive decisions for Senior Leaders. FMS-ACES is in development and once fielded subsumes capabilities of a 50-year-old legacy system and consolidates two disparate systems into a single source of Army FMS data. The new system will exchange information with 26 distinct financial and logistic systems of record partners for end-to-end process execution. FMS-ACES will support 2000 users, incorporating 6,200 active FMS cases and 88,000 active requisitions.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below

• Translate business requirements into technology-driven data strategies, ensuring alignment with Army-wide data, cloud, and digital transformation initiatives. Define data standards and principles that support operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Design and implement a comprehensive data management framework covering the entire data lifecycle, including planning, specification, acquisition, maintenance, usage, archiving, retrieval, control, and purging.
• Provide a holistic data architecture strategy that reduces redundancy, eliminates inaccuracies, standardizes data storage, and minimizes duplication. Enable high-quality data analytics to support mission-critical insights.
• Oversee the planning and execution of data quality improvements, addressing poorly understood data to enable a modern data mesh that enhances data management and governance.
• Eliminate siloed data across disparate systems, enhance data autonomy, and establish robust data governance frameworks to ensure consistency, security, and accessibility.
• Ensure completion and compliance with key deliverables, including data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams, data models, and documentation. Maintain adherence to Unified Data Reference Architecture (UDRA) and best practices for data mesh implementation to facilitate seamless data exchange between domains.

Education, Requirements and Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance is mandatory
• Demonstrable experience in a Lead, Subject Matter Expert (SME), or other advisory level position as a data architect
• Experience supporting a Project Management Office (PMO) within the Department of the Army Headquarters is highly preferred
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

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