Sr. Data Architect - Data Modeler

Overview

A growing financial services organization is seeking a Data Architect to play a key role in shaping its next-generation data environment. This individual will help design and evolve a modern data ecosystem that supports analytics, reporting, and critical business operations.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong architectural thinking with hands-on data modeling expertise, and who enjoys working closely with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing

Designing Enterprise Data Architecture

• Define and evolve the organization's data architecture framework
• Establish standards, best practices, and guiding principles for data design
• Align data architecture with broader business and technology initiatives

Hands-On Data Modeling (Core Focus)

• Create and maintain:
  • Conceptual data models
  • Logical data models
  • Physical data models
• Translate business requirements into scalable, well-structured data designs
• Develop reusable models that support both operational and analytical use cases
• Ensure consistency across data domains and systems

Master Data Strategy & Design

• Contribute to the design of enterprise master data structures
• Define how key business entities (such as customers, accounts, or products) are managed and standardized
• Support the creation of rules for matching, merging, and maintaining high-quality master data

Data Quality & Governance Support

• Help establish consistent approaches to data quality and integrity
• Collaborate with internal teams responsible for governance, metadata, and data stewardship
• Support efforts related to data lineage, cataloging, and standardization

Modern Data Platform Design

• Contribute to the architecture of scalable data platforms, including:
  • Data warehouses
  • Data lakes or lakehouse environments
• Assist in defining patterns for:
  • Data ingestion
  • Transformation
  • Storage and consumption
• Ensure solutions are designed for performance, scalability, and maintainability

Integration & Data Flow Design

• Define approaches for moving and integrating data across systems
• Support design of ETL/ELT pipelines and data exchange patterns
• Participate in reviewing and guiding technical solutions for alignment with standards

Collaboration & Business Engagement

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand data needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Work closely with data engineering, analytics, and governance teams
• Act as a bridge between business concepts and technical implementation

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• Approximately 6-12 years of experience working across data architecture, data modeling, or closely related disciplines
• Strong hands-on experience creating data models across multiple abstraction levels
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Experience designing or contributing to enterprise-scale data solutions
• Familiarity with data governance and data quality concepts
• Experience working in cloud or hybrid data environments

Preferred Experience

• Experience working within financial services or related domains
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and cloud-based architectures
• Exposure to:
  • Data warehousing and lakehouse concepts
  • Dimensional modeling or similar techniques
  • Master data management concepts

Work Environment

• Remote during the initial contract period
• Hybrid schedule anticipated upon permanent transition (combination of remote and onsite collaboration)
• Multiple geographic locations supported

Who You Are

• A hands-on architect who enjoys working directly with data structures
• Comfortable moving between technical design and business conversations
• Able to work in evolving environments with changing priorities
• Detail-oriented, but also able to think strategically about long-term data design

Why This Role

This opportunity offers the chance to play a foundational role in building and modernizing a data ecosystem that supports both day-to-day operations and long-term business growth. You'll have the ability to influence design decisions, collaborate across teams, and help shape how data is used across the organization.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of San Diego, CA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $75.00 - $100.00/hr.
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