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Cloud Data Architecture
Database Design
Data Model Design
Data Warehouse Architecture
REQ#: RQ227886
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to be on the frontlines of health innovation. Deliver for America’s health agency missions and enhance lives for hundreds of millions every day.
Job 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.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
- 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.
DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- 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.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in data science and engineering at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your determination for solving complex data challenges.
Work Requirements
8 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Less than 10%
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Cloud Data Architecture
Database Design
Data Model Design
Data Warehouse Architecture
REQ#: RQ227886
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to be on the frontlines of health innovation. Deliver for America’s health agency missions and enhance lives for hundreds of millions every day.
Job 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.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
- 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.
DESIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- 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.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in data science and engineering at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your determination for solving complex data challenges.
Work Requirements
8 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Less than 10%
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cloud architect jobs.
- Five or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure at scale
- Professional certification in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native patterns including microservices, serverless, and containerization
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical architectures
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering discipline
Tips for Your Cloud Architect Job Search
Tailor your resume to cloud platforms
List your primary cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in the first line of your summary and quantify your infrastructure work in concrete terms, such as workloads migrated, cost reductions achieved, or uptime improvements delivered. Generic cloud resumes get filtered out fast.
Earn the certification that matches the role
Check the job posting for the preferred cloud platform before applying. AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Expert, and Google Professional Cloud Architect are not interchangeable to hiring managers, so certifying on the platform the employer actually uses gives your application a real edge.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cloud architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by architecture scope
Search for openings using terms like multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, or cloud-native alongside your target role. Employers who need a strategist write very different job descriptions than those hiring a hands-on infrastructure architect, and applying to the right scope improves your chances significantly.
Prepare a design whiteboard answer
Most cloud architect interviews include a live architecture design exercise. Practice walking through a scalable, fault-tolerant system design out loud, explaining your trade-offs on latency, cost, and security at each step. Interviewers are evaluating your reasoning as much as your final diagram.
Negotiate scope before negotiating anything else
Before discussing compensation, clarify what the role owns: greenfield builds, migrations, or platform governance. A cloud architect with ownership over architectural decisions commands a different conversation than one executing designs handed down by an engineering VP.
Cloud Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cloud architects?
The companies hiring the most cloud architects right now include Booz Allen Hamilton, Capgemini, and Amazon Web Services, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, Texas, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is concentrated in technology, financial services, and federal contracting organizations.
How many cloud architect jobs are remote?
About 68% of cloud architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the nature of infrastructure work that can largely be done without being on-site. Roles focused on cloud strategy, architecture review, and cost optimization tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions tied to regulated industries or on-premises migration projects are more likely to require in-person presence.
How do you become a cloud architect?
Start by building hands-on experience as a cloud engineer or systems engineer, then earn a professional-level certification from a major cloud provider. Develop your ability to design end-to-end systems by taking on architecture ownership within your current role, even informally. Most cloud architects progress from an infrastructure or DevOps background before moving into formal architect titles.
Can you get a cloud architect job without prior architect experience?
Yes, but you need to demonstrate architectural thinking even if your title has been engineer or developer. Build a portfolio of system designs you have contributed to, highlight any cross-team technical leadership, and pursue a professional-level cloud certification to signal readiness. Many employers hire senior cloud engineers into architect roles when candidates show clear design ownership and communication skills alongside their hands-on work.
What does the cloud architect interview process look like?
Cloud architect interviews typically run across multiple rounds starting with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview covering platform knowledge and architecture concepts. The core round is usually a live whiteboard or virtual design session where you architect a system from a prompt. Final rounds often include a presentation to engineering or business stakeholders and a behavioral interview assessing cross-functional communication and decision-making under constraints.
Where can I find and apply to cloud architect jobs?
You can find and apply to cloud architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your cloud platform experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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