Overview

At Criterion Systems, we developed a different kind of business—a company whose real value is a reputation for excellence built upon the collective skills, talents, perspectives, and backgrounds of its people. By accepting a position with Criterion Systems, you will join a group of professionals with a collaborative mindset where we share ideas and foster professional development to accomplish our goals. In addition to our great culture, we also offer competitive compensation and benefit packages, company-sponsored team building events, and advancement opportunities.

Responsibilities

Criterion Systems is seeking a mission-focused Software Data Architect to support and contribute to our government customer’s success in San Diego, CA. The individual in this position must be a motivated team player that strives for professional and technical excellence in Software Data Architecture.

Primary Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Familiar with Data Centricity principles like federated search.
• Experience designing logical/physical data architectures related to data ontologies.
• Ability to conduct technical trade studies and assessments to inform data designs.
• Working on a new campaign within the Space Systems organization to migrate their existing application centric enterprise to a data centric environment.
• Assist with defining the tenants of the data centric environment, establish processes for migrating app-centric capabilities to data centric applications and provide a well-though vision/transitional road-map for moving the customer to this new paradigm of data centricity.
• Be part of Electronic Systems, the global innovator behind our systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications and Skills: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Salary Range: $136,000-$160,500 - Depending on qualifications and experience.

 Preferred but not Required:

• Familiar with W3C standards such as JSON-LD and RDF.
• Familiar with different query languages like GraphQL, opensearch, xquery, sparcl.
• Understanding of storage solutions like Data Warehouse, Data Lakes, Graphs, Relational Databases and unstructured file storage.

Criterion Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination at all levels of our organization. We believe in treating all applicants and employees fairly and make employment decisions without regard to any individual’s protected status: race, ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, sex/gender, gender identity/gender expression, sexual orientation, physical and mental disability, marital/parental status, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), age, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.