Business Intelligence Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Define the target-state architecture for business intelligence, data, applications, integrations, automation, AI-enabled solutions, and Azure services.

• Architect data ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic models, dashboards, reporting, and self-service analytics.

• Establish trusted data definitions, data quality expectations, ownership, lineage, and access controls.

• Define solution designs for both new and existing business applications, encompassing data, interfaces, workflows, identity, security, extensibility, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.

• Establish standards for APIs, messaging, event-driven integrations, middleware, system synchronization, managed file exchange, and cross-application workflows.

• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities across approvals, document processing, exception handling, data movement, repetitive tasks, and cross-system processes.

• Design secure assistants and agents using governed enterprise information and approved tools, incorporating identity, authorization, human approval, evaluation, monitoring, and audit controls.

• Guide Azure and Azure Government solutions across data, integration, applications, automation, and AI.

• Develop prototypes, reference implementations, and company applications; review code and configurations; validate technical approaches; troubleshoot complex cross-system issues.

• Mentor developers, analysts, administrators, and engineers in solution design, architecture patterns, development practices, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational readiness.

• Set direction and coordinate technical work among internal staff, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.

• Establish architecture governance through reference architectures, reusable patterns, architecture decision records, development standards, technical reviews, and vendor evaluation criteria.

• Build and maintain a sequenced modernization roadmap.

• Collaborate with IT Operations to ensure monitoring, support, recovery, ownership, documentation, and transition requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in business intelligence, data architecture, application architecture, integration engineering, solution architecture, or related enterprise technology roles.

• Proven track record of designing and delivering production-level business intelligence, data, application, integration, automation, or AI-enabled solutions.

• Strong hands-on experience in engineering, development, systems integration, data, or solution delivery; capable of prototyping, reviewing technical work, and diagnosing complex issues.

• Experience leading technical teams and coordinating delivery among employees, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring developers, analysts, administrators, engineers, or other technical professionals.

• Experience working within complex enterprise environments that involve multiple interconnected systems and competing operational priorities.

• Involvement in technology roadmap development, application modernization, or structured enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Significant experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Government.

• Experience in integrating ERP and other operational platforms with analytics, applications, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.

• Preferred experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, MRO, supply chain, or other regulated operating environments.

• Expertise in business intelligence and analytics: data ingestion, transformation, warehousing or lakehouse concepts, semantic modeling, reporting, dashboards, self-service analytics, and performance measurement.

• Knowledge in data architecture and governance: enterprise data flows, data quality, metadata, lineage, trusted definitions, ownership, security, master and reference data, and analytics readiness.

• Understanding of application architecture: SaaS and custom applications, solution decomposition, identity, security, extensibility, lifecycle management, observability, and production support.

• Familiarity with integration and automation: APIs, API management, messaging, event-driven architecture, middleware or iPaaS, workflow orchestration, serverless patterns, low-code and pro-code automation, and integration monitoring.

• Knowledge of AI-enabled applications and agents: enterprise search, retrieval and grounding, agent orchestration, tool invocation, evaluation, observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and responsible-use governance.

• Practical experience in Azure solution architecture, designing and delivering Azure-based data, application, integration, automation, and AI solutions, including security and operational requirements.

• Familiarity with ERP, finance, supply chain, MRO, CRM, customer, vendor, and related platforms.

• Working knowledge of source control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, environment promotion, documentation, and release management.

• Understanding of identity, networking, private connectivity, compute, storage, monitoring, resilience, backup, recovery, and cost management.

• Knowledge of least privilege, secrets management, data protection, auditability, vulnerability management, and secure solution design in government or regulated environments.

• Ability to lead through technical credibility, sound judgment, clear direction, and accountability.

• Capability to mentor team members, elevate engineering standards, and enhance technology organization capabilities.

• Skill in leading matrixed teams and coordinating work without solely functioning as a project manager.

• Strong communication skills across business, technical, operational, vendor, and executive audiences.

• A collaborative approach and sound judgment regarding sequencing and prioritization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.