Data Architect

Position:
Data Architect

Company:
OPEN Data Jobs

Location:
United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Employment type:
Full time

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Short Summary:
Data Architects shape how an organization represents, connects, governs, and uses data across systems, translating business processes and technical constraints into models for implementation.

Responsibilities:
- Build conceptual, logical, and physical data models for operational and analytical systems.
- Create target-state architectures for warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, relational databases, and specialized stores.
- Develop canonical models, integration patterns, data contracts, naming standards, and schema conventions.
- Document architecture decision records, transition roadmaps, and current-state or future-state diagrams.
- Design governance-aware solutions for metadata, lineage, access, retention, quality, and lifecycle management.

Requirement:
- Experience with data modeling, schema design, normalization, dimensional modeling, and model evolution.
- Judgment across various data stores including relational, analytical, document, graph, key-value, and vector-capable.
- Understanding of integration patterns, data contracts, metadata, lineage, data quality, and governed access.
- Ability to evaluate architecture choices against security, resilience, performance, scalability, cost, and migration risk.
- Clear visual, written, and verbal communication across engineering, security, product, and business teams.

Benefits:
Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening.