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Enterprise Architecture Principal – Data & Analytics

Job in Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78716, USA
Listing for: The Cigna Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-19
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineering, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Data Warehousing, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 151600 - 252600 USD Yearly USD 151600.00 252600.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

The Enterprise
Architecture Principal – Data & Analytics is a senior technology leader responsible for defining the future enterprise data and analytics architecture strategy, target states, and multi-year roadmaps . This role recognized architecture authority architecture strategies, establishes technology standards, and creates multi-year roadmaps that support business goals and setting the northstar vision for modern data platforms, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities—translating business priorities into pragmatic, scalable, and future-ready architectures .

The individual will be operating with high enterprise influence and no direct reports, this role requires strong executive presence, the ability to influence without authority, and a relentless focus on enabling data-driven decision making, hyper-personalization, and AI-first innovation .

Key Outcomes
  • Enterprise Data & Analytics Vision: Define and publish a business-aligned data and analytics architecture strategy with a clear 3–5 year roadmap covering data platforms, governance, analytics, AI/ML, and integration layers.

  • Scalable & Reusable Data Foundations: Establish modern, modular data architectures that reduce fragmentation, promote reuse, and enable enterprise-scale analytics and AI.

  • Decision Velocity through Architecture Governance: Implement architecture principles, guardrails, and decision frameworks to improve speed, consistency, and quality of analytics and data platform decisions.

  • AI-Ready & Insights-Driven Enterprise: Enable analytics-ready data, semantic layers, and AI capabilities that accelerate insights, automation, and intelligent decisioning.

  • Cross-Domain Alignment: Act as a unifying architecture leader across Digital, Data, AI, Security, and Business domains to ensure alignment on key investment and design decisions.

Responsibilities
  • Develop and lead enterprise data and analytics architecture strategies and roadmaps.

  • Design and evolve enterprise data & analytics architecture strategy, capability maps, and target-state designs

  • Develop and maintain multi-year roadmaps aligned to business outcomes, cost optimization, and innovation priorities.

  • Lead architecture decisions for large-scale data, analytics, and AI initiatives.

  • Architect and support modern data platforms (cloud data lakehouse, streaming, real-time pipelines, semantic/ontology layers).

  • Partner with engineering, product, data, and business teams to deliver scalable and cost-effective solutions.

  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that support business objectives.

  • Enable self-service analytics , BI, and advanced analytics capabilities across the enterprise.

  • Lead architecture for AI/ML platforms, feature stores, and model lifecycle integration .

  • Embed data governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship frameworks into architecture design.

  • Drive innovation in AI/ML, GenAI, agentic analytics, and intelligent automation .

  • Provide architecture leadership for high-impact data and analytics initiatives .

  • Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and standards for enterprise adoption.

  • Develop reusable architecture patterns, frameworks, and standards for enterprise adoption.

  • Support modern engineering practices, including Data Ops, MLOps, and automated deployment processes.

  • Partner with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure architectures are executable, scalable, and cost-efficient .

  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance across the architecture and data community.

  • Enable adoption of modern engineering practices (Data Ops, MLOps, CI/CD for data).

  • Influence strategic technology decisions and drive alignment across multiple teams and business areas.

  • Serve as a mentor and thought leader across the architecture and data community.

  • Drive adoption of best practices, patterns, and architectural discipline .

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, data engineering, analytics platforms, or related disciplines.

  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

  • Proven success defining data/analytics…

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