Data Architect

Position Summary

Located 45 minutes from the Nation's Capital, nestled in a history-rich community of southern Maryland, The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) has been twice named in the top 150 community colleges by the Aspen Institute with academic programs in over 100 disciplines. CSM is among America's top 100 producers of Minority associate degrees in twenty categories, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

CSM offers excellent health insurance benefits;
State Retirement Pension plan; wellness programs;
Code Green early closure Fridays in the summer; college closure for spring break and several major holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year; and for several days in March for Spring Break. We are an innovative institution committed to student success and well known for our flexibility to meet student and community needs.

The Data Architect is a pivotal role within the IMT Division responsible for providing critical support in the design/development, oversight, implementation, management, and understanding of the CSM data infrastructure. This role is responsible for designing, creating, deploying and managing CSM's data architecture. The Data Architect will support and guide CSM in defining how data will be stored, consumed, secured, integrated and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing that data.

Duties include ensuring integrity, availability, and security of data across all systems and platforms.

A significant responsibility in this role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to understand data requirements, design efficient data models and data visualizations, and implement data management best practices to support the college's strategic, academic, reporting, and administrative goals. The Data Architect is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the suite of enterprise IT SW applications and services that drive the institution's core data analytics and reporting/business intelligence (BI) business functions including Power Bi and Colleague Reporting and Operational Analytics (CROA).

This role provides planning, implementation, and operational support/leadership in the implementation of the CSM data lake/data warehouse initiative. The Data Architect also provides technical/strategic direction for the oversight/management of Data Analytics and Reporting infrastructure and provides leadership in the planning/implementation of the “CSM Blueprint for Data Responsive Decision-making” which frames CSM's Data Management/Data Governance strategic goals and support activities. The Data Architect will prepare special reports as directed by the Program and Project Management Executive Director, Deputy CIO or CIO.

Reports to:

VP Information Management and Technology/CIO

The hiring salary for this position will be from the min to mid-point of the salary range advertised.

This position is open until filled.

• Support, design and implement an efficient, scalable data lake/data warehouse solution and data models to support institutional needs.
• Develop and maintain data architecture frameworks and standards.
• Ensure data integration across various systems, including Student Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of available systems software/hardware and evaluate/make appropriate recommendations for system upgrades and purchases.

• Develop and implement Reporting and Analytics Strategic Roadmap.
• Support the development of institutional reports and dashboards.
• Collaborate with institutional research and analytics teams to ensure data availability for decision-making.
• Develop data solutions to support strategic planning and operational efficiency.

• Provide technical and operational leadership/support in the implementation of the CSM “Blueprint for Data-Responsive Decision-Making” data governance strategy.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies and procedures.
• Implement data…