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Lead Data Architect

at Kansas City National Security Campus in Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Job Description

The Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, is a premier advanced manufacturing facility that supports the safety, security, reliability and effectiveness of our nation's nuclear deterrent. With nearly 7,000 employees combined in Kansas City, Missouri, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, KCNSC protects our nation and allies by producing trusted national security products and services for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

We create innovative solutions to complex national security challenges, and lead with accountability, collaboration and an unwavering dedication to our mission and core values. Click here to view the mission, vision and values that guide our work.

Are you ready to do work that matters?
SummaryLeads and coordinates highly complex or enterprise critical projects that architects an efficient way to manage data across a diverse but unified data tier.  Designs, translates business requirements, develops, documents, tests, monitors, troubleshoots, and administrates our data environment using our data management tool sets.

Duties and Responsibilities
Designs, builds, and follows data pipelines for complex data structures encompassing data transformation mapping, data flow diagrams, logical and physical data models, and metadata collection. Accountable for developing, managing, and integrating business intelligence reporting, analytics, and data science output into business processes and workflows. 
Provides a standard common business vocabulary, express strategic data requirements, outline high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and align with enterprise strategy and related business architectures. 
Leads planning sessions with customers to improve business processes and prioritize investments in data and infrastructure.  
Proactively analyzes existing data structures or reporting to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements. 
Leads and oversees effort to identify data requirements, develops data specifications, establishes, and enforces data governance, applies data modeling patterns, develops complex data conversion and migration designs, and develops convergence plans toward data standards.  
Accountable for developing and executing best practices for naming, governing, managing, modeling, cleansing, transforming, moving, storing, and searching all data. Ensure changes to the data environment are compliant to the architectural standards. 
Leads design and data model reviews providing constructive feedback to team.  
Maintains and ensures adherence to data quality standards and procedures. Reviews data models for data quality assurance and validates compliance with data architecture standards. 
Provides technical guidance, leadership and coaching to team members, to include sharing business acumen. Proven ability to mentor peers and identify/develop training plans and strategies to maintain technical currency. 
You Must Have
Bachelors degree required
7 or more years of direct work experience
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
United States Citizenship
Ability to work on-site as directed by management and as determined by the needs of the business
Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations)
We ValueLead IT Data Planning

Proven experience developing strategic plans with the ability to articulate a clear, business‑centric vision.
Ability to identify and prioritize innovation opportunities and assess emerging technologies.
Experience creating phased transformation roadmaps, including phases, milestones, dependencies, and sequencing.
Broad industry knowledge across the data ecosystem: source systems, transformation, processing, storage, consumption, BI reporting, and data visualization.
Visionary mindset with the ability to foster a culture of experimentation, supported by strong enterprise‑architecture skills.
Ability to monitor emerging threats and regulatory changes to keep the organization compliant with data‑privacy, cybersecurity, and DOE‑specific regulations.
Expert‑level capability defining conceptual, logical, and physical data architecture.
Experience with data‑management tools and platforms such as Informatica, Microsoft Data Services, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Denodo, and Collibra.

Data Execution Planning Responsibilities

Coordinate with business units for project sourcing.
Align operations and planning activities with NNSA partners.
Work with service‑delivery managers to match technical needs with available resources.
Ensure funding availability and planning in collaboration with Finance.
Sync practices and roadmap direction with Enterprise Architecture & Planning (EAP).

FMT2021
This job description is not all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned. Employees must maintain regular, reliable attendance, and be able to work on-site and travel as needed.

What We Offer

We are focused on attracting, hiring and retaining talented people who power our mission. Our robust total rewards package recognizes performance, fuels development and supports flexibility. Key features include:

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Industry leading 401(k) match

Generous paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Certification & License Programs

Mission driven culture

Click here to learn more about our benefits and culture.

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We are required by the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review, including checks of references, credit, law enforcement records and employment/education history. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Dual citizenship may affect clearance eligibility.

All employment offers are contingent on a federal background investigation. Substance abuse, illegal drug use, falsified information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness may result in denial or loss of clearance and termination of employment.

Honeywell Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Requirements for MedPEDs
If you have a medical portable electronic device (MedPED) — such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug‑releasing pump, hearing aids or diagnostic equipment used to measure or monitor body functions — you may be required to meet NNSA security requirements if employed by us.

If you have a MedPED and are selected for an on-site interview, additional steps may be required to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements before your interview date.If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application, please send an email to our Reasonable Accommodation Support Team at staffing@kcnsc.doe.gov.

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Job Posting: 13640639

Posted On: Aug 14, 2026

Updated On: Aug 14, 2026

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