Data and Analytics Architect

Overview

In addition to the salary posted above, this position is currently receiving an additional 5% premium pay due to the position being in King County.

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission (WSHFC) is recruiting for a full-time, permanent Data and Analytics Architect in the Information Technology Division. The Information Technology Division supports Commission staff to accomplish the Commission's goals and objectives. This position is one of four within the IT Division responsible for all commission business systems including Homebase, Business Central, Laserfiche, and Home ownership’s Loan Reservation System.

The Data & Analytics Architect is responsible for designing, creating, and managing the Commission’s data architecture. This role establishes a solid foundation for data management, ensuring data is organized, accessible, secure, and aligned with business objectives. The D&A Architect designs warehouses, file systems and databases, and defines how data will be collected and organized.

The duty station for this position is Seattle, WA. The work will be performed through a combination of teleworking and onsite work as needed. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance of the worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

The Commission is a market-driven and self-supporting agency created to provide below-market rate financing for building, purchasing, or preserving affordable housing and nonprofit capital facilities. The Commission functions as a financing conduit between developers, lenders, first-time home buyers, real estate professionals, and nonprofit organizations to provide affordable financing for homes, rental housing, civic and social services facilities, energy conservation projects and first-time farmers and ranchers.

We believe that creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment is important and vital to the success of the Commission. We believe in working together to create an environment free from harassment and discrimination and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual.

• Interprets and delivers impactful strategic plans improving data integration, data quality, and data delivery in support of business initiatives and roadmaps
• Designs and implements enterprise architecture for the Commission’s data warehouse
• Provides guidance, support, and coordination with Commission staff to integrate new data sources into data warehouse architecture
• Translate high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards
• Ensures technical integration is achieved between the Commission’s data warehouse and internal and external Commission data sources
• Responsible for simplifying the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost-saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the Commission
• Responsible for defining and managing standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure data quality
• Establish and enforce enterprise data architectural policies, standards, and governance practices to reduce technical debt, improve lifecycle management, and ensure consistent, supportable environments
• Ensures rigorous application of and compliance with the Commission’s IT security policy to all components and connections of the data warehouse architecture
• Routinely evaluates the Commission’s data warehouse policy against industry best practices and recommends and implements updates as needed
• Able to identify opportunities for improving systems that support business processes
• Create and maintain documentation of the architecture infrastructure that identifies business units and key
• Work on additional special projects throughout the year as identified by management and perform other duties as assigned.

We are most interested in candidates who meet or exceed the following criteria:

• Proven ability to lead end-to-end projects involving data warehousing, modeling, and analysis.
• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing data models for…