Data Architect

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with clients to comprehend their business objectives, requirements, and limitations, converting them into scalable and secure data solutions.

• Direct the design and enhancement of comprehensive cloud data architectures, encompassing ingestion, storage, processing, modeling, and consumption.

• Establish data models, integration methodologies, and design standards.

• Develop and uphold data flow diagrams, architecture diagrams, logical and physical models, data lineage, and data dictionaries.

• Provide technical guidance to data engineering teams via code and design reviews, best practices, and mentorship.

• Ensure the architecture meets governance, data quality, security, and compliance requirements.

• Facilitate workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and executive presentations.

• Suggest emerging data and cloud technologies.

• Assist in proposals, offering development, business development, and deal closure.

• Lead technical pre-sales efforts, including discovery, solutioning, and estimations.

• Represent the organization in executive briefings and industry events.

• Mentor and lead data engineers, including conducting performance reviews, making staffing decisions, and planning career development.

• Assess effort and complexity while supporting project planning.

• Contribute to practice offerings, accelerators, reusable assets, and thought leadership initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15+ years of overall experience as a data architect and data engineer.

• Proven experience in leading Azure data migrations.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL Database.

• Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing Snowflake data solutions.

• Experience delivering enterprise-grade data solutions at a top consulting firm.

• Background in supporting proposals and pre-sales activities.

• Experience managing cloud-based data and analytics environments across development, testing, and production phases.

• Extensive knowledge of relational and transactional database theory.

• Capability to assess the business and technical implications of user requirements for project planning.

• Proven experience with Agile methodologies.

• Ability to design and effectively communicate complex architecture diagrams and data solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience leading whiteboarding workshops for gathering requirements.

• Preferred: experience modeling utilities, wildfire, and/or geospatial data.

• Preferred: familiarity with GIS technologies, especially ArcGIS.

• Preferred: experience with Microsoft Visio and/or LucidChart.

• Preferred: undergraduate degree in a STEM field or business.

• Preferred: Microsoft or Data Platform certifications.

• Preferred: experience designing and leading large-scale cloud data migrations.

• Strong understanding of cloud computing, solution design, identity and access management, networking, and security best practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Performance-based bonuses and additional incentives.

• Opportunities for training, project involvement, and mentorship.

• A supportive, globally connected work environment.

• An immersive company culture.

• Career development opportunities.

• Continuous coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities.