Lead Data Architect

Lead Data Architect

Description

Lead Data Architect

At B&A, we foster and embrace a distinct set of values that we live by and instill in all aspects of our organization: dedication, commitment, partnership, trust, and recognition. We have incorporated these values into successful delivery for our customers since 1988. B&A believes in ensuring its employees feel deeply connected to B&A, recognizing successes and hard work, and providing continuous opportunities to learn and grow. Our people are entrepreneurial thinkers that combine mindset, vision, and experience to drive value - not only to us as an organization, but to the clients we support. We promote a collaborative culture with our clients, and with each other, as one team working towards a common vision. We'd love for you to join our team!

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior-level Lead Data Architect to design, develop, deploy, and manage the data architectures, data strategies, and data governance frameworks for the U.S. Census Bureau's Decennial Transformation and Application Modernization (DTAM) effort. This role possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high-impact assignments, plans and leads major data architecture assignments, and functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments. The Lead Data Architect translates business needs into long-term data architecture solutions and builds platforms that handle data at varying volumes, varieties, and velocities. May supervise others.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, deploy, and manage data architectures, data strategies, and data governance frameworks for systems, applications, and databases

Build, integrate, and maintain data platforms including data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, marts, hubs, and knowledge graphs

Plan, design, develop, implement, and maintain appropriate data structures for operational, graph, transactional, and spatial data

Translate business needs into long-term data architecture solutions and evaluate reusability of current data for additional analyses

Define and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling concepts, techniques, and tools

Develop strategies for data acquisition, archive, and recovery, and incorporate metadata management to optimize access, performance, and cost

Enhance and maintain data dictionaries, catalogs, and repositories aligned with enterprise data standards

Support data engineering and integration, including data pipelines, integration patterns, and Interface Control Documents

Support data quality, data lineage, and data governance activities across service providers

Validate the design of all SoS interfaces in accordance with data dictionaries and data lineage work products

Collaborate with architects, engineers, and application teams to identify, evaluate, and manage data storage solutions

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field

10-14 years of experience, possessing and applying comprehensive knowledge across key data architecture tasks and high-impact assignments (Senior level)

Required Skills

Expert experience ...For full information see follow application link.

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