Data Architect

Role overview

Design and guide an enterprise data architecture spanning on-premises systems and a growing cloud footprint. Working across IT, security, infrastructure, applications, and business teams, this role establishes data models, integration approaches, platform standards, and governance practices that support business needs and compliance obligations.

Responsibilities

- Define and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models, data domains, architecture standards, and a target-state roadmap. - Assess data platform options and present clear recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. - Design integration patterns across legacy and cloud systems, including ETL or ELT pipelines, APIs, streaming, and master or reference data. - Establish governance practices for data ownership, quality, lineage, cataloging, retention, and classification. - Partner with security and compliance teams on data storage and access controls for sensitive information. - Guide data migration and modernization work, review solution designs, document architecture decisions, and mentor engineers and analysts.

Requirements

- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a related field. - At least seven years in data engineering, database design, or analytics, including three or more years designing enterprise data architectures across multiple systems. - Deep experience with relational and dimensional modeling, plus working knowledge of lakehouse and NoSQL patterns. - Hands-on experience with a major cloud data platform and with SQL Server and Oracle databases. - Knowledge of data governance and enterprise security, including access controls, classification, encryption, privacy, and compliance. - Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and explain trade-offs to varied audiences.

Nice to have

- Familiarity with Azure Government or GCC High, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI. - Experience with on-premises-to-Azure migrations or work involving federal security requirements such as CUI, NIST SP 800-171, or CMMC 2.0.

Benefits and work setup

- The stated estimated pay range is $100,000–$130,000, with the final offer depending on location, skills, and experience. - Listed benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); paid time off and federal holidays; disability and life coverage; family planning assistance; legal aid; and training opportunities. - The source describes the work as primarily office-based.