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Data & Analytics Enterprise Architect

Job in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, 50319, USA
Listing for: Principal International
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-21
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Information Security & Data Protection, Business Systems & Technology Analysis
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 130000 - 180000 USD Yearly USD 130000.00 180000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

What You ll Do

The Senior Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect designs, governs, and evolves the enterprise analytics architecture to enable trusted, scalable, and self-service decisioning. We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect II or Assistant Director
- Enterprise Architect for this role. This role translates business outcomes into an actionable analytics architecture across modern cloud data platforms, ensuring data is consistent, governed, high-performing, and AI-ready. You will lead warehouse/Lakehouse architecture, data products, semantic layers, and metrics governance—partnering with engineering, BI, and data science to standardize patterns, develop best practices, architecture decisions and accelerate delivery. Success in this role is measured by faster time-to-insight, consistent KPI definitions across the enterprise, improved platform performance/cost, and increased reuse of governed data products.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics & Data Architecture

  • Define and maintain the enterprise data and analytics architecture blueprints, vision, principles, and target states.
  • Ensure data ecosystem alignment with enterprise architecture strategy, business capabilities, and operating models.
  • Collaborate to manage, maintain, and mature the health of data and analytics capabilities for the enterprise
  • Define and maintain the enterprise analytics architecture across modern data platforms including:
  • Analytical data models and marts
  • Semantic and metrics layers
  • Cloud data lake and warehouse solutions
  • Design analytics solutions optimized for:
  • BI reporting
  • Self-service analytics

Advanced analytics and AI consumption

  • Ensure analytics architectures scale with growing data volumes and concurrent users
  • Own the analytics architecture roadmap (target state, phased migration, and decommission plan) aligned to business priorities
  • Define reference architectures, standards, and guardrails; serve as design authority for analytics modeling and consumption patterns

Data Modeling & Semantic Layer

  • Own analytical and dimensional data models for enterprise reporting
  • Design and govern:
  • Conformed dimensions
  • Business metrics and KPIs
  • Semantic layers on top of Databricks / Snowflake
  • Enable tool agnostic analytics consumption across multiple BI platforms
  • Ensure consistency of definitions across dashboards, reports, and AI use cases

Data Products & Marketplace Enablement

  • Drive a data-as-a-product approach for analytical datasets, including product ownership, lifecycle management, and adoption
  • Define analytics data products hosted on Databricks / Snowflake with clear onboarding, versioning, and support processes, including:
    • Clear schemas and contracts
    • Quality thresholds and SLAs
    • Documented usage patterns
  • Enable discoverability, trust, and reuse through catalog and marketplace integration

Modern Data Platform Architecture (Snowflake)

  • Architect analytical solutions on Snowflake including:
  • Data modeling for analytics workloads
  • Performance optimization and cost efficiency
  • Workload separation and concurrency management
  • Define best practices for:
    • Delta Lake / Iceberg / analytical table formats
    • Warehouse and cluster sizing strategies
    • Ingestion and transformation patterns
    • Caching and query optimization
  • Guide teams on:
    • Snowflake SQL, notebooks, and compute patterns
    • Snowflake virtual warehouses, clustering, and data sharing
    • Design analytics architectures that support BI, ML, AI/NLQ and data science workloads on the same platform

Governance, Quality & Security

  • Implement analytics-focused governance on cloud data platforms:
  • Row-level and column-level security
  • Dynamic data masking
  • Secure data sharing mechanisms
  • Define and monitor analytics data quality rules
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory standards
  • Partner with data governance and platform security teams

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Collaborate closely with:
    • Data engineers
    • Analytics and BI teams
    • Data scientists
    • Enterprise and solution architects
    • Provide architectural leadership and design governance
    • Mentor teams on analytics modeling, platform usage, and best practices
Who You Are
  • Bachelor s degree OR equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of experience with a multi-business unit global organization
  • 8+ years in data & analytics architecture, analytics engineering, or enterprise analytics roles
  • 3+ years hands-on experience designing on modern cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent)
  • Demonstrates skilled level of business and professional breadth of knowledge and Enterprise Architecture expertise.
  • Familiar and understand connections between Enterprise Architecture domains including Business Architecture, Information / Data Architecture, Software / Application Architecture, Technology / Infrastructure Architecture, and Security Architecture with expertise in one or more Enterprise Architecture domains
  • Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and growth within architecture field (i.e., training, or architectural certifications such as TOGAF or Certified Business Architect)
  • Experience with an Agile software…
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