Americaninstitutesforresearch
Senior Applications Architect
US-Remote | US-VA-Arlington | US-NC-Chapel Hill | US-IL-Chicago | US-CA-Sacramento | US-TX-Austin. Posted 4 days ago
The role
The Senior Applications Architect designs, develops, and implements secure, scalable technology solutions for research and mission-driven programs. This role combines hands-on software engineering with strategic leadership to create integrated applications, analytics, and decision-support tools.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and implement secure, scalable, data-driven applications.
- Architect integrated solutions spanning data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and analytics.
- Develop reusable relational, semantic, and ontology-based data models.
- Integrate and harmonize data from multiple sources.
- Contribute to application development, integration, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Design and implement reusable technical components and integration patterns.
- Translate complex requirements into intuitive applications and decision-support workflows.
- Design and implement solutions within Palantir Foundry/Vantage.
Required qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Public Health, Public Policy, or a related field with at least seven years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor’s
- Experience designing, architecting, and implementing enterprise-scale applications, data platforms, and integrated technology solutions.
- Experience developing and deploying secure, scalable software applications, system integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
- Experience designing and implementing data architectures, data models, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, and analytics solutions.
- Experience working across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience applying software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile.
- Experience with modern software engineering technologies and frameworks.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, including data integration, ontology design, application development, and analytics capabilities.
- Strong solution architecture and systems-thinking skills.
- Strong software engineering and technical problem-solving skills.
- Strong data architecture and data modeling skills.
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, APIs, enterprise data platforms, and modern application development frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience with Palantir Foundry is highly preferred
Before you apply
- This position is open to U.S. citizens only.
- Incumbent will be required to obtain clearance through the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system.
- Candidates will undergo reference and background checks.
About the company
Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance.