Data Architect – Enterprise Data & Governance

Location: Dearborn (MI) |
Employment Type: Full Time - 40 hours per week |
Job Level: T4 |
Work Preference: Hybrid |
Job Code: 245927

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and implement data architecture solutions, data models, and governance standards that support business capabilities and enterprise technology initiatives. This role focuses on data architecture, data engineering, database design, data quality, information integration, and enterprise architecture governance. The ideal candidate will have extensive IT experience, strong data modeling expertise, and hands‑on experience with modern cloud data technologies.

• Translate business capabilities into solution concepts, architectural models, and functional and technical requirements.
• Develop and maintain data, information, process, solution, application, service, technology, and infrastructure architecture artifacts.
• Define and implement data architecture strategies, technology patterns, design principles, and standards.
• Drive enterprise data integration, information management, data standards, and data governance initiatives.
• Design and evaluate integration strategies for information and process flows across enterprise systems.
• Develop and align current-state and future-state architectural models to support strategic planning, investment decisions, and technology initiatives.
• Provide architecture guidance and support to project teams, ensuring clear objectives, deliverables, and alignment with business capabilities.
• Communicate architecture concepts, principles, strategies, and models to business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Facilitate architecture discussions with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between business objectives and technology solutions.
• Ensure architecture initiatives align with established standards, IT projects, and business plans.
• Develop recommendations to improve the business value of IT investments and technology initiatives.
• Establish and approve future-state architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Research and evaluate architectural innovations, tools, methodologies, and processes.
• Direct and approve prototypes and innovation initiatives based on architectural research.
• Facilitate architecture governance and ensure adherence to established standards.
• Build stakeholder alignment and support for architecture standards, guidelines, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Provide strategic guidance for prioritization, technology planning, and portfolio management.

• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• 5+ years of experience in information architecture, data architecture, data engineering, or advanced database design and modeling.
• Experience designing or implementing OLTP/RDBMS databases, data warehouses, and data marts.
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience creating data models using data modeling tools such as Power Designer.
• Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM) concepts and tools.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies, including Big Query, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Cloud Run, MongoDB, and Dataflow.
• Experience defining and implementing data quality initiatives.
• Knowledge of AI capabilities and experience applying AI to data engineering and data modeling.
• Knowledge of data architecture, data analysis, data integrity, data governance, data modeling, data warehousing, database technologies, and data management.
• Bachelor's degree and certification program.

• Experience with Master Data Management (MDM), enterprise architecture, and .NET Core.
• Functional and architecture experience with one or more Product…