Architecture & Data Lead

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DEFCON AIDefense Technology
USAFull-TimeSenior
Salary$175k-$225k per year
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years of software/systems architecture experience; 5+ years of data architecture or data engineering experience
Required Skills
Data engineering

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software/systems architecture experience including at least one system-of-systems integration effort delivered to production.
  • 5+ years of data architecture or data engineering experience on DoW, logistics, or complex-enterprise systems.
  • Hands-on experience building production integration adapters between disparate systems.
  • Demonstrated experience operating across multiple classification levels (IL-4, IL-5, IL-6) or equivalent regulated multi-enclave environments.
  • Active Secret Clearance.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% to USMC sites, Defcon AI HQ, and industry vendor facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement bidirectional data layers connecting major DoW C2 platforms like Palantir and Anduril.
  • Develop common data models and translation layers to resolve schema and vocabulary mismatches.
  • Build and validate production-grade adapters for government environments.
  • Lead end-to-end data flow onboarding for logistics and personnel data sources.
  • Architect classification-aware data flows across IL-5, IL-6, and tactical environments.
  • Align architecture with JADC2 and Service C2 interoperability standards.
  • Design and implement resilient data synchronization for DDIL environments.
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