by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Own the database architecture that keeps mission-critical systems fast, secure, and scalable. If you love turning messy business requirements into clean data models, tuning performance until it purrs, and setting standards other teams actually follow, this role is for you.
About Citizant
Citizant provides professional IT services to the U.S. government, supporting agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security and Treasury. Their work spans Agile application development, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, and program management support. Citizant maintains a collaborative, small-company culture and hires values-aligned professionals focused on drive, excellence, responsibility, and building a better future.
Schedule
- Full-time
- 100% remote (employees can work remotely)
What You’ll Do
- Translate business requirements into robust, scalable database designs through stakeholder collaboration
- Design and implement database solutions optimized for performance, reliability, and security
- Define database standards, best practices, and guidelines, and ensure teams follow them across projects
- Evaluate and recommend database technologies and tools aligned to current needs and future growth
- Lead database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting efforts
- Develop and maintain data models, schemas, and data dictionaries
- Implement data security controls including access controls, encryption, and data masking
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior DB developers and administrators
- Stay current on emerging database technologies and incorporate improvements into architecture when appropriate
What You Need
- Proven experience as a Database Architect, Database Administrator, or similar role
- Strong knowledge of major DBMS platforms such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server
- Strong command of relational database design, normalization, and data modeling techniques
- Proficiency in SQL programming and scripting for automation and administration (e.g., Python, Perl)
- Experience with cloud-based database platforms such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, or Google Cloud SQL
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, or Redis and their use cases
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- U.S. citizenship required
- Active Public Trust/MBI or ability to obtain one
Benefits
- Compensation up to $126,000 yearly (varies by skills, experience, and location)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Generous PTO
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Development Program
If you’re ready to set the database standards, harden security, and make performance a feature, this one’s worth your shot—apply now.
Bring your architecture mindset, your tuning instincts, and your love of clean data design—Citizant will put you on work that matters.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lead the design and delivery of agentic AI solutions that modernize government workflows and produce measurable outcomes. If you can translate business needs into secure Azure architectures, guide teams through delivery, and drive adoption with clients, this role is built for you.
About Citizant
Citizant is a leading provider of professional IT services to the U.S. government, supporting agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security and Treasury. Their work spans Agile application development, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, and program management services. Citizant maintains a collaborative, small-company culture and hires values-aligned “A Players” driven by excellence, responsibility, and building a better future.
Schedule
- Full-time
- 100% remote (employees can work remotely)
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the technical and architecture lead for client engagements implementing agentic AI solutions
- Architect and develop agentic AI systems using Azure AI services and third-party platforms via xAI’s API
- Design end-to-end architectures leveraging Azure services, LLMs, agent frameworks, and secure data pipelines
- Oversee implementation of AI solutions in Azure, including integration, testing, and model training where applicable
- Ensure compliance with standards such as GDPR and HIPAA, and align with Azure security best practices
- Monitor solution performance using Azure monitoring tools
- Translate business requirements into actionable solution architectures with product owners, project managers, and engineering teams
- Define interfaces, APIs, microservice architectures, and orchestration strategies for intelligent agent workflows
- Lead architectural reviews, participate in sprint planning, and align delivery with DevSecOps and MLOps best practices
- Evaluate new tools, models, and AI patterns that support customer goals
- Produce architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical artifacts for internal and external stakeholders
- Stay current on emerging AI and cloud technologies, and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and training
What You Need
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering and/or architecture roles
- 3+ years delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure
- Proven experience architecting and delivering agent-based AI systems, LLM-integrated applications, or intelligent automation platforms
- Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration frameworks
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Proficiency in Python, R, or C# for AI model development
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns, RESTful API design, and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with Azure security, compliance, and identity/access management
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including working with technical teams and executive stakeholders
- Customer-centric approach with focus on measurable business value
- Experience delivering software projects in Agile/Scrum environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- U.S. citizenship required
- Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain one
- Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications (preferred)
Benefits
- Compensation: $170,000 – $185,000 yearly
- Competitive benefits package
If you’re ready to own the architecture, lead the room with clients, and ship secure AI systems that actually get adopted, apply now.
Bring your Azure depth, your agentic AI experience, and your ability to lead delivery from idea to implementation—Citizant will put you on work that matters.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Design advanced computer systems that power mission-critical work for U.S. government agencies. If you’re the kind of architect who can balance performance, scalability, security, and cost while leading cross-functional teams to a clean implementation, this role is built for you.
About Citizant
Citizant provides professional IT services to the U.S. government, supporting agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security and Treasury. Their work spans Agile application development, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, and program management support. Citizant prioritizes a collaborative, small-company culture and hires “A Players” aligned with their values of Drive, Excellence, Reputation, Responsibility, and building a Better Future.
Schedule
- Full-time
- 100% remote (employees can work remotely)
What You’ll Do
- Lead system design, architecture, and integration across hardware, software, networking, and storage components
- Develop comprehensive system specifications to guide implementation teams
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions based on performance, scalability, reliability, and cost
- Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance, throughput, and resource utilization
- Integrate security measures into designs in collaboration with cybersecurity experts
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards and frameworks such as FISMA, NIST, and GDPR considerations where applicable
- Design scalable, resilient systems with redundancy and failover mechanisms
- Collaborate with developers, network engineers, DBAs, and stakeholders to ensure interoperability across system components
- Produce technical documentation including architecture diagrams, design documents, implementation guides, and stakeholder reports
- Stay current on industry trends and proactively drive process improvement and optimization
What You Need
- 10 years of proven experience in system design, architecture, and implementation
- Strong knowledge of computer hardware, operating systems, networking protocols, and storage technologies
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages including Java, C#, Python, and JavaScript
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- U.S. citizenship required
- Active Public Trust/MBI or ability to obtain one
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCNA, AWS or Azure Solutions Architect (plus)
Benefits
- Compensation up to $178,600 yearly (varies by skills, experience, and location)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
High-level architecture roles with real mission impact don’t stay open long—if you’ve got the experience and the clearance eligibility, move on it.
Bring your systems brain, your security instincts, and your ability to lead complex builds—Citizant will give you the platform to make it matter.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build a cybersecurity program from the ground up and be the hands-on engineer who turns security plans into real protection. If you like deploying tools, hardening systems, and being the technical first responder when alerts fire, Dandy needs you.
About Dandy
Dandy is transforming the $200B dental industry by simplifying and modernizing every function of the dental practice through technology. They’re building the operating system for dental offices worldwide, empowering clinicians and teams with innovation and world-class support. Backed by leading venture capital firms, Dandy is scaling fast and investing in foundational security as they grow.
Schedule
What You’ll Do
- Lead deployment, configuration, and integration of core security systems and processes such as patch management and MFA
- Establish initial alerting, reporting, and dashboarding within security platforms to create operational visibility
- Own and execute the new Security Incident Response process as the primary technical responder for security alerts
- Perform initial analysis, containment, and log correlation during security events
- Develop and maintain SOPs and runbooks for newly implemented security systems
- Partner with IT Engineering to implement baseline security configurations and hardening across endpoints (Windows, macOS, Linux) and cloud platforms (GCP and/or Azure)
- Create and maintain security tool documentation, architecture diagrams, and configuration guides
- Provide expert guidance to IT Engineering on integrating security controls into network and system architecture
What You Need
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in IT security engineering or security operations delivering measurable security improvements
- Deep technical skill installing, managing, and troubleshooting IT applications and security configurations
- Strong background supporting security in IT infrastructure, including:
- Network security fundamentals
- Security configuration for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Familiarity with foundational security controls in GCP and/or Azure
- Ability to learn new tools quickly, follow implementation plans, and execute incident response steps methodically
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with IT Engineering during system deployments
Benefits
- Salary range: $141.3K – $176.6K (U.S. based)
- Offers equity
- Comprehensive, inclusive benefits tailored by country, typically including:
- Healthcare
- Dental coverage
- Mental health support
- Parental planning resources
- Retirement savings options
- Generous paid time off
If you’re the kind of security engineer who wants ownership, impact, and the satisfaction of building something solid from scratch, don’t wait.
Come help Dandy stand up core security infrastructure, lock down endpoints and cloud, and create an incident response rhythm that scales.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Be the person who doesn’t just report numbers, but drives the product forward with them. If you can turn messy user behavior into clear decisions that grow retention, recurring revenue, and feature adoption, Dandy wants you leading the charge.
About Dandy
Dandy is transforming the $200B dental industry by simplifying and modernizing every function of the dental practice through technology. They’re building the operating system for dental offices worldwide, empowering clinicians and teams with innovation and world-class support. Backed by leading venture capital firms, Dandy is scaling fast, and product analytics is central to how they grow.
Schedule
What You’ll Do
- Own the analytical roadmap for Product, Design, and Engineering by translating company OKRs into a concrete product data strategy
- Proactively identify friction in the user journey, such as feature drop-off, and surface actionable solutions
- Define the metrics framework by establishing a consistent source of truth for product success
- Build KPIs and dashboards in Hex or Looker that leadership can trust for feature performance decisions
- Lead causal impact work by designing and executing complex A/B tests and causal inference models in Python
- Run end-to-end analytical projects from ideation through maintenance, spanning months when needed
- Distill statistical findings into clear narratives for senior leaders to drive trade-offs across speed, quality, and technical debt
- Mentor analysts, deliver trusted code reviews, and improve team tools and processes to increase velocity
- Validate insights against real-world operations by digging into on-the-ground workflows and questioning metrics when they don’t match reality
What You Need
- 5+ years of experience in a senior data analyst or data science role focused on product problems
- Quantitative background in Math, Statistics, Engineering, or Behavioral Science
- Strong ability to operate as a business owner and strategic partner, not a ticket-taker
- Experience designing KPIs, metrics frameworks, and dashboards (Hex or Looker)
- Strong Python skills for experimentation, causal inference, and statistical modeling
- Ability to choose the simplest effective tool for the job, including leveraging automation and LLMs to eliminate repetitive work
- Strong stakeholder communication skills and confidence presenting to VPs and Directors
- Ability to move fast with sound statistical intuition and iterate toward better answers
Benefits
- Salary range: $188K – $235K (U.S. based)
- Offers equity
- Comprehensive, inclusive benefits tailored by country, typically including:
- Healthcare
- Dental coverage
- Mental health support
- Parental planning resources
- Retirement savings options
- Generous paid time off
If you’re tired of dashboards that don’t drive decisions and you want to own product outcomes end-to-end, don’t overthink it.
Bring your stats brain, your product instincts, and your storytelling clarity—and help Dandy grow faster with better decisions.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lead the team that turns raw application data into fast, trusted, CEO-ready data products. If you’re obsessed with clean models, a rock-solid semantic layer, and making analytics move at business speed, Dandy is handing you the keys.
About Dandy
Dandy is transforming the $200B dental industry by simplifying and modernizing every function of the dental practice through technology. They’re building the operating system for dental offices globally, combining innovation with world-class support for clinicians and their teams. Backed by leading venture capital firms, Dandy is scaling fast, and data is the engine behind that growth.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote (Anywhere)
- Work from anywhere within 3 hours of NYC time zone
What You’ll Do
- Build and lead a high-performing data engineering team focused on modeling, transformation, and data product ownership
- Define team vision, hire, mentor, and create career paths for data and analytics engineers
- Architect a domain-driven semantic layer that turns business concepts into trusted, centralized data models
- Own the health and performance of the data warehouse by optimizing SQL, table design, and cost-effective pipelines
- Partner upstream with software engineering teams to implement data contracts before code ships
- Create reusable, modular data components that accelerate data access for analysts and data scientists
- Treat data as a product by implementing SLAs for data availability and quality
- Ensure data products are monitored, tested, and reliable so bad data never reaches critical dashboards
- Drive technical rigor with software engineering best practices, CI/CD, and strong testing discipline
What You Need
- Deep expertise in dimensional modeling (Kimball), data mart design, and complex SQL logic
- 3+ years managing Data Engineers or Analytics Engineers
- Expert-level skill with SQL and dbt
- Strong experience with the modern data stack, including dbt and Snowflake or BigQuery, plus orchestration tools like Airflow or Dagster
- Ability to translate technical constraints to business stakeholders and advocate for data needs with engineering leaders
- Comfort negotiating data contracts and preventing downstream technical debt
- Strong focus on reliability, testing, and CI/CD for data pipelines
- Strategic mindset to build a scalable data foundation for hyper-growth
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and performance-based incentives
- Remote-first culture
- Comprehensive, inclusive benefits tailored by country, typically including:
- Healthcare
- Dental coverage
- Mental health support
- Parental planning resources
- Retirement savings options
- Generous paid time off
This role is for someone who doesn’t just move data, but owns the truth. If you want to lead the semantic layer, enforce rigor, and make data products that the business can bet on, apply now.
Help Dandy build a single source of truth that scales with hyper-growth and keeps decision-making fast and confident.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
