Data Architect

Company: Apex Systems
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Schedule: Hybrid, 2 days onsite and 3 days remoteWe are looking for a results-oriented, meticulous, and experienced data architect to join our team. As a data architect, your responsibility will be to develop, optimize, and oversee the conceptual and logical data systems. You should know how to review data system requirements as we build our cloud-native solution and implement migration models. You will need to demonstrate proven experience in data analysis, management, and excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.Key Skills:

• Current with new technologies and vendor solutions available in the marketplace - especially AWS related services
• Expertise in data architecture and design, for both structured and unstructured data
• Expertise in data modeling and experience in developing POC's
• Expertise with all aspects of data management: data governance, data mastering, meta-data management, data taxonomies, and ontologies
• Expertise in architecting and delivering highly-scalable and flexible, cost-effective, cloud-based enterprise data solutions
• Fluent understanding of data security and compliance requirements
• Fluency architecting and documenting architecture at multiple levels (high-level to detailed) and across multiple views (conceptual, logical, physical, data flow, and sequence diagrams)
• Understanding of Solutions Architecture methodology and practices
• Ability to translate business requirements into conceptual and detailed technology solutions
• Ability to perform third-party vendor assessments
• Strong collaboration skills and building effective working relationships
• Strong leadership skillsKey Responsibilities:
• As a Principal Architect, represent the Software Engineering team while defining the strategy, architecture, and solutioning for our system.
• Define and build overall data design and modeling across all of the organization's data systems.
• Data management across multiple data systems: data governance, data mastering, meta-data management, data definitions, semantic-layer design, data taxonomies, and ontologies.
• Architecting and delivering highly-scalable and flexible, cost-effective enterprise data solutions.
• Coordinate with collaborator teams and own the conversation to define use cases, goals, objectives, and architecture to support business needs.
• Build system and application architectures to achieve defined business needs.
• Build relationships with senior leadership.
• Engage and evangelize recommendations to senior leadership teams.
• Understand the current state of the organization-wide architecture.
• Identify key business drivers and technology capabilities required to achieve optimal state.
• Anticipate future technology requirements and communicate those to the leadership and multi-functional teams.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams and act as a liaison between key business and IT experts.
• Ensure alignment between business strategies, information technology roadmap, and technical and tactical deployment teams.What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
• 5+ years of experience in a data architect role including enterprise data architecture models, systems integration, data systems, cloud technology, and planning/completing strategic roadmaps.
• Experience in designing and building applications using AWS (or Azure or GCP) cloud architecture & services and support of highly available and resilient multi-region platforms.
• Experience in common architecture frameworks such as Microservices, API management including OAuth and Event-driven architecture.
• Experience communicating across multi-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience of taking ownership of intake of business vision and translating the business vision to technical solution and architecture requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, sharing information, and leading meetings.
• Consistent track record of leading execution of architecture vision across multi-functional technical and strategy teams.
• Demonstrated experience working with PMs, DevOps, and software engineers, data architects, application developers & data scientists to plan out end-to-end solutions.
• Ability to communicate technical and business strategy successfully to audiences of varying levels of experience, background, and seniority.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification.
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.
• Bachelor's Degree or foreign degree equivalent in Engineering Management, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.EEO EmployerApex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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