Data Architect
Gilbane Inc2 years ago
Boston, MA, USA +7 moreSenior
Base Salary
$110k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical guidance for assigned domains.
- Lead architecture and high-level design activities for strategic business and technology initiatives.
- Translate business capabilities, requirements, and constraints into scalable, secure, reliable, and sustainable architectures.
- Develop current-state, target-state, and transition architectures supporting enterprise strategies and technology roadmaps.
- Identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities across technology domains.
- Participate in architecture reviews, governance processes, portfolio planning, and technology roadmap development.
- Provide architecture guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle to maintain alignment with approved designs and enterprise standards.
- Partner with business, product, delivery, security, operations, and vendor stakeholders to align architecture decisions with business priorities.
- Communicate options, tradeoffs, risks, recommendations, and critical decision points to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Promote consistency and reuse across business units, applications, and technology initiatives.
- Coach and mentor less experienced team members and support an inclusive work environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- At least 5 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
- Certification or familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman is preferred.
- Relevant architecture, cloud, application, data, or technology certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Certified Data Management Professional are preferred.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across applications, data platforms, integrations, analytics, and cloud services.
- Experience evaluating packaged applications, cloud services, platform capabilities, and custom-development approaches.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise and data architecture, data modeling, governance, information management, APIs, integration patterns, ETL/ELT, data lineage, access controls, and security principles.
- Understanding of application architecture principles including service boundaries, scalability, resiliency, observability, interoperability, and lifecycle management.
- Ability to define architecture patterns and standards for APIs, events, messaging, data exchange, workflow orchestration, and system integration.
- Ability to balance governance, security, compliance, and data controls with innovation and agility.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies for their potential to improve business outcomes, delivery effectiveness, and technology sustainability.
Benefits
- The role may be located near any Gilbane office or worked remotely.
- Gilbane University and other multidimensional training resources provide leadership and technical development opportunities.
- Employees work with an experienced team and gain opportunities to learn new industry skills.
- Benefits include health and welfare coverage, a profit-sharing/401k plan, and an overall total compensation package.
- Qualified applicants offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering