Senior Data Architect

Department

Booth IT:
Application Development

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The Senior Data Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and leading the organization’s enterprise data strategy, architecture roadmap, and cloud data modernization initiatives. This role serves as the enterprise authority for data architecture, data management, analytics platforms, and AI-ready data ecosystems, ensuring that organizational data assets are secure, trusted, accessible, and strategically aligned with business objectives. The Senior Data Architect provides technical and strategic leadership in the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-based data solutions that support operational reporting, business intelligence, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and emerging data-driven initiatives.

This position serves as the enterprise subject matter expert for Microsoft Fabric and the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem, leading the transition from legacy and on-premises data environments to modern cloud-native architectures.

This position collaborates closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Application Development, Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI teams to establish enterprise standards, governance frameworks, and long-term data strategies that maximize the value of organizational data assets. The ideal candidate combines strategic vision, enterprise architecture expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and deep technical knowledge to drive innovation, operational excellence, and business value through data.

• Develops, maintains, and executes the enterprise data architecture strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with organizational goals, digital transformation initiatives, and business priorities.
• Leads the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise cloud data platforms utilizing Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Power BI, and related Azure technologies.
• Architects scalable data warehouse, lakehouse, data mesh, and data integration solutions supporting enterprise reporting, analytics, and artificial intelligence initiatives.
• Establishes and enforces enterprise standards, best practices, and governance policies for data architecture, data modeling, integration, metadata management, data lineage, security, and quality.
• Leads enterprise data modernization and migration efforts from legacy and on-premises platforms to cloud-native architectures and services.
• Designs and oversees enterprise…