Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture

General Information

Job Title

Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture

Job

111950

Work Areas

Analytics, Data & Research, Technology & Engineering

Employment Type

Permanent Full-Time

Location(s)

Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington DC

Description & Requirements
What makes us a great place to work

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don't happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment.

We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.

Who you'll work with

As a member of Bain's Technology Solutions Group (TSG), The Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture is accountable for the vision, strategy, and results of the firm’s enterprise data architecture function. You will report to the EVP, TSG Data & Technology and serve as a member of the senior data and technology leadership team, helping shape the firm’s broader data strategy. You will partner closely with senior business and technology leaders across functions, departments, and regions, and with our data governance, information security, privacy, and legal colleagues.

You will set technical direction for internal engineering teams and external delivery partners through the senior leaders who guide them, and represent the firm’s data architecture direction with strategic technology partners and external peers.

Where you'll fit within the team

We are building a single, governed data platform on Databricks that spans every kind of data we hold — structured and unstructured alike — to serve as the data fabric for the agentic AI platform we are building alongside it, and as the authoritative data and knowledge platform for the firm. The Vice President, Data Architecture will own the target-state architecture and the roadmap to reach it, making the architecture trade-offs and recommending the investment priorities needed to align that roadmap with the firm’s goals.

The role sets the multi-year direction for the firm’s enterprise data platforms, models, and related capabilities, and ensures they provide a scalable, secure, and governed foundation for the trusted use of data, analytics, and AI across the firm. The Vice President leads the data architecture function — including the Data Modeling Center of Excellence — through a team of senior leaders and architects, builds the leadership bench and succession for the function, and serves as a senior advisor and thought partner on the firm’s data strategy.

What you'll do Architecture strategy and technical leadership

Set the vision and multi-year roadmap for the firm’s enterprise data architecture, platforms, and capabilities, aligned with business strategy and the firm’s data and AI ambitions

Own the target-state data architecture and the architecture principles, standards, and technology direction that keep enterprise data capabilities scalable, secure, governed, and maintainable

Make and defend the major architecture and platform decisions, balancing speed, cost, risk, and long-term flexibility across departments and regions, and recommend the investment priorities that follow; create strong reference architectures to guide the implementation of various initiatives

Provide senior technical leadership on the most…