Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, Federal

Joining Collibra’s Customer Solutions and Services team

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

The Federal Enterprise Architect will work closely with customers at various stages of their Data maturity journey, from land to expansion to renewals. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large enterprises across the Federal business to support their roadmap and data programs with Collibra.

This is an in-person role based in Fayetteville, NC. 

Federal Enterprise Architects at Collibra are responsible for

• Leading federal customer engagements by delivering mission-aligned consulting services that adhere to Collibra’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 Kubernetes, 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

• Based within daily commuting distance of Fayetteville, NC, with the ability to work on-site at the customer's facility five days per week.
• 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 your first month, you will complete Collibra's onboarding and product certification process, familiarize yourself with active federal customer engagements and their respective data maturity stages, and establish relationships with key cross-functional partners across Sales, Customer Engineering, and Product.

Within your third month, you will take full ownership of your assigned federal customer engagements, delivering consulting services in alignment with Collibra's delivery models and federal compliance standards, while identifying early expansion opportunities tied to agency modernization mandates or evolving data governance needs.

Within your sixth month, you will be operating as a trusted advisor to federal agency stakeholders, consistently meeting or exceeding utilization targets, contributing to at least one account expansion, and bringing repeatable delivery artifacts or best practices back to the broader Public Sector professional services team.

Compensation for this role

The standard base salary range for this position is $152,000.00 - $190,000.00 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.