Technical Lead / Solution Architect SME

Kearney & Company is hiring a Technical Lead / Solution Architect Subject Matter Expert. The Technical Lead will provide overarching technical leadership and solution architecture for the FASTR program within the War Data Platform and will translate Department of the Air Force financial management, audit readiness, reporting, and enterprise integration needs into secure, scalable, maintainable technical solutions. The Lead will guide architecture decisions, coordinate engineering delivery across FASTR workstreams, and ensure solutions meet approved functional requirements and Department of War security and data governance expectations. Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Lead the technical design and solution architecture for FASTR capabilities supporting Audit / FIAR, BI / Reporting, and Enterprise Data / Integration workstreams.
• Translate approved business and functional requirements into end-to-end solution designs, technical specifications, and implementation approaches.
• Define architectural patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic modeling, analytics, interfaces, and application integration within the War Data Platform.
• Provide technical direction to data engineers, integration analysts, BI developers, and other implementation personnel across shared technical efforts.
• Assess solution options and document architecture tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, security, and delivery risk.
• Establish and promote development standards, code review practices, testing approaches, configuration management, and technical documentation.
• Coordinate with platform administrators and authorized security stakeholders to ensure designs align with applicable access controls, data handling, and governance requirements.
• Oversee technical integration points and dependencies among source systems, curated datasets, dashboards, and downstream consumers.
• Guide troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex data pipeline, interface, performance, and reporting defects.
• Partner with functional leads to validate technical feasibility, refine priorities, and define measurable acceptance criteria for delivered solutions
• Communicate technical progress, architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to the FASTR Program Lead and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience in enterprise solution architecture, data engineering, systems integration, software engineering, or related technical disciplines
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead or solution architect for complex enterprise data and analytics initiatives
• Expertise in end-to-end architecture spanning data ingestion, ETL/ELT, data modeling, integration, reporting, and production operations
• Strong proficiency with SQL, APIs, data exchange patterns, and modern data architecture and integration practices
• Experience establishing technical standards, reviewing solution designs, and guiding multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Ability to evaluate architecture tradeoffs and design secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable enterprise solutions
• Excellent analytical, technical documentation, stakeholder coordination, and written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret level security clearance (requires US Citizenship)
• Must be willing and able to travel as required, up to 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of the Air Force or other Department of War financial management and enterprise data modernization programs
• Experience developing solutions within the War Data Platform or comparable secure government enterprise analytics environments
• Knowledge of FIAR, Universe of Transactions, financial reconciliations, and executive financial reporting use cases
• Experience with Python, orchestration frameworks, cloud-native data services, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field
• Relevant solution architecture, cloud, data engineering, or security certifications

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Overview

Exclusively focused on the Government, Kearney & Company provides financial services, including auditing, consulting, and technology services. Our commitment to our employees and clients as well as to dedication and trust, critical values to our Firm, have led to Kearney’s recognition as one of the leading accounting firms in the country. Based on our employees’ feedback, we are also consistently rated a Best Place to Work. Employment at Kearney means a flexible, collaborative, and open-minded work environment. We hope it is your “first easy decision.” Learn more at www.kearneyco.com/careers.

The expected salary range for this position is between $103,000 and $180,000. This range is representative of base pay only and does not include straight time pay for hours worked over 40 per week, company contributions towards paid benefits, and/or bonuses.  Actual compensation (meeting or exceeding the range) will be determined based on specific experience, education, work location, clearance level, and other factors permitted by law.  This position is eligible for bonuses (when applicable).

We also offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan and 529 Education Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account
• Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity Insurances
• Legal Insurance and Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program, fitness and wellness benefits, and other firm benefits.
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time

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