Director, Enterprise Data Architecture

Role overview Lead enterprise data architecture and transformation, shaping the platforms, governance, and practices that make data more reliable, accessible, and useful across the organization. The role combines strategic roadmap ownership with delivery accountability, working across product, engineering, AI, cybersecurity, and business teams to improve analytics, automation, and decision-making.

Responsibilities - Set and lead an enterprise data roadmap covering governance, modernization, platform evolution, and measurable business outcomes. - Identify and prioritize improvements to data quality, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end workflows. - Guide architecture and delivery of scalable lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, and integration platforms. - Establish reusable patterns for pipelines, ingestion, data access, reliability, and secure use in analytics and AI/ML. - Align cross-functional leaders, remove delivery barriers, and track performance through suitable KPIs. - Build team capability and adoption of data practices through collaboration and change leadership.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information or data systems, engineering, or equivalent experience. - At least 10 years in data architecture, engineering, or platform leadership, including 7 or more years leading teams and enterprise initiatives. - Track record of delivering data transformation with measurable business impact. - Deep knowledge of modern cloud data platforms and lakehouse, warehouse, ETL/ELT, and streaming architectures. - Strong understanding of governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and security. - Ability to set KPIs, influence cross-functional teams, and translate architecture decisions into business outcomes.

Benefits and work setup - Listed annual base pay is $150,000–$180,000, with the final amount depending on location, qualifications, and experience. - Full-time benefits include health and wellness coverage, retirement savings, stock incentives, paid time off, parental leave, and tuition assistance. - Up to 50% travel may be required; first-day onboarding is at an office in Raleigh, Tucson, or Carmel.