Lead, Data Architect – Business Solution Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +14 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the architecture of business solutions for intricate enterprise projects that facilitate digital transformation and align with strategic business goals.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, program teams, IT, engineering, and data departments to set priorities, establish solution strategies, and achieve quantifiable business results.

• Convert business challenges into scalable, secure, and sustainable design solutions.

• Direct the gathering of requirements, process analysis, solution architecture, and assessment of alternative solutions.

• Lead the comprehensive delivery of solutions, which includes planning implementation, testing, deployment, managing organizational change, promoting user adoption, and realizing business value.

• Ensure that solutions utilize reliable enterprise data while enhancing data quality, governance, standardized business processes, and coherence with enterprise architecture.

• Facilitate high-level discussions among executives and cross-functional teams, offering recommendations, status reports, and decision-making support throughout the solution lifecycle.

• Track solution performance, adoption, and business outcomes, proactively spotting risks, opportunities, and initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Provide both technical and functional leadership by mentoring team members, sharing best practices, and contributing to the standards and governance of solution delivery.

• Manage multiple initiatives and influence decisions across both business and technical domains.

• Travel for activities related to implementation, stakeholder workshops, on-site ramp-up, or enterprise-wide deployments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 9 years of relevant experience, or a Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of related experience, or, in the absence of a degree, at least 13 years of relevant experience.

• Over 9 years of experience in business solution architecture, business analysis, systems analysis, enterprise transformation, IT, data/analytics, or a related field.

• Proven experience in supporting or leading complex solution delivery initiatives that engage multiple stakeholders, functions, and technologies.

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical or operational solutions.

• Experience collaborating with business and technical teams to foster alignment, prioritization, and execution.

• Strong background in stakeholder management, requirements gathering, process mapping, solution planning, and providing implementation support or oversight.

• Familiarity with enterprise data and analytics environments, including data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, and business intelligence platforms.

• Demonstrated capacity to solve complex issues, effectively navigate ambiguity, and advance work with minimal oversight.

• Experience in designing and implementing operational business applications using Palantir Foundry is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other iterative development frameworks.

• Experience with enterprise analytics and data technologies such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar platforms.

• Experience with enterprise business applications and delivery tools like SAP, PeopleSoft, CostPoint, Hyperion, Jira, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.

• Background in integrating business processes, data, and technology across engineering, finance, operations, program management, or supply chain.

• Approximately 10–20% travel is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and disability insurance

• 401(k) match

• Flexible spending accounts

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Education assistance

• Parental leave

• Paid time off

• Company-paid holidays

• 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off