Lead Data Architect

Role overview Lead enterprise data architecture for a greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial modernization program. The role sets the target data model and governance approach, directs legacy migration architecture, and governs the analytics layer so financial, logistics, asset, and organizational data can be reconciled and traced for reporting and audit needs.

Responsibilities - Own conceptual, logical, and physical models for financial, organizational, asset, material, and business partner data. - Lead the data architecture and master data team, assigning work and developing team capability. - Establish data ownership, stewardship, governance workflows, quality rules, and measurable standards. - Direct legacy data discovery, profiling, extraction, transformation, mapping, staging, and source-to-target lineage. - Define validation, reconciliation, and acceptance criteria for mock conversions and production cutover, and report readiness at milestone reviews. - Govern analytics and data fabric design, including ingestion, curated layers, semantic models, and reconciliation with financial systems and downstream reporting.

Requirements - At least eight years in enterprise data architecture, modeling, or management for large system implementations. - Ownership of data architecture for at least one full lifecycle ERP implementation, including migration from legacy systems. - Expertise in enterprise data modeling, canonical models, lineage, provenance, and data quality management. - Experience establishing master data governance and using migration methods for extraction, profiling, cleansing, transformation, loading, and reconciliation. - Experience designing analytics or data platforms and leading a data team through work allocation, quality review, and performance management. - Related bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; the stated experience ranges are 8–12 years with a degree, plus 3–5 years of people leadership, or 10–14 years without a degree, plus 5–8 years of people leadership. Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain one before assignment is required; U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice to have - Experience with federal financial audit requirements and cloud data platforms for large analytical workloads.

Benefits and work setup The position is contingent on contract award and may require travel to client sites up to 50%. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k), bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.