AI Data Architect: Cloud Data & Governance Leader

Guidehouse; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Vision

401k

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Life Insurance

Transit Benefits

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise data architectures that support analytics, reporting, and AI use cases. This role provides architectural leadership across data modeling, data engineering, and data governance, and works closely with cloud architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.

You will work in a hybrid environment in the DC area, translating business and regulatory requirements into scalable data solutions, while guiding data

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a public trust
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture/engineering or related roles
• Experience designing data architectures in AWS and Snowflake
• Experience with data modeling (logical and physical) and enterprise data design
• Experience supporting data governance and stakeholder engagement
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment in the DC area

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models supporting analytics and AI initiatives
• Define and oversee enterprise data architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
• Lead solution architecture for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers
• Provide technical leadership across AWS and Snowflake data environments
• Support data governance initiatives including metadata management, data quality, lineage, and stewardship
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable data architecture solutions
• Partner with delivery teams during implementation to ensure architectural alignment and quality

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Cloud collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Data modeling

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise data architectures that support analytics, reporting, and AI use cases. This role provides architectural leadership across data modeling, data engineering, and data governance, and works closely with cloud architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.

You will work in a hybrid environment in the DC area, translating business and regulatory requirements into scalable data solutions, while guiding data