Austin Aviation IT Data Architect

City of Austin; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Austin is seeking an IT Data Architect to design, build, and optimize the enterprise data platform powering reporting, analytics, AI, and decision-making. You will develop scalable data pipelines, integrate data from multiple systems, and create modern architectures such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data hubs.

You will work with business stakeholders, data analysts, engineers, and application teams to ensure data is accurate, secure, accessible, and production-ready, following

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science or a related field, plus five years of related experience.
• Masters degree may substitute for up to two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements data pipelines and analytics infrastructure across enterprise.
• Develops scalable data architectures (data warehouses, data lakes, data hubs).
• Collaborates with data analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Documents data models, mappings, and specifications; ensures data quality and governance.

Skills

ETL/ELT

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data modeling

Automation

CI/CD

Python

R

Azure Synapse

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Science or related field

Master’s degree may substitute for up to 2 years

Tools

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Factory

Azure SQL Database

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Job description

About This Position

As an IT Data Architect, you will design, build, and optimize the enterprise data platform that powers reporting, analytics, artificial intelligence, and business decision-making. You'll develop scalable data pipelines, integrate data from multiple systems, and create modern data architectures such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data hubs. Working closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, engineers, and application teams, you'll ensure data is accurate, secure, accessible, and production-ready. This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking, requiring experience in ETL/ELT, SQL, cloud data platforms, data modeling, automation, and modern analytics technologies. Success in this position means transforming complex data into trusted enterprise assets that enable smarter decisions across the organization while following governance, security, and change management best practices.

Job Description

Purpose: IT Data Architects build and manage the data pipelines necessary to support value creation, growth, and delivery of IT results through designing and implementing the data and analysis infrastructure. This position optimizes data pipelines and moves data pipelines effectively into production for key data and analytics consumers by working across the City and with IT and other subject matter experts to plan and deliver optimal analytics and data solutions to users.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities

• Assists in building and managing the data pipelines necessary to support value creation, growth, and delivery of business and IT results.
• Designs and implements the data and analysis infrastructure, including complex databases.
• Assists in developing different technical tools/services to enable large scale machine learning solutions.
• Works closely with Data Analysts, and others to develop scalable and production ready Advanced Analytics and supporting software.
• Assists in building and maintaining data management systems and data pipelines that combine core data sources into data warehouses or other accessible structures to support reporting and analytical systems.
• Documents models, solutions, and implementations (e.g., Data Mapping, Technical Specifications, Production Support, Data Dictionaries, Test Cases, etc.).
• Creates data transformation processes (ETL, SQL stored procedures, etc.) to support moderately complex to complex business systems and operational data flows.
• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Knowledge of languages such as (R, Pearl, Python, Java, C++, C#, Scala etc.), modern data storage and access technologies, including caching, application of NoSQL, Key/Value, and RDBMS datastores.
• Knowledge of commercial data science platforms (e.g., Python, R, KNIME, Alteryx, etc.).
• Knowledge of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processing and Change Data Capture (CDC) technologies.
• Knowledge of big data concepts and frameworks and business intelligence tools (such as Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI) and AI frameworks (Caffe, TensorFlow).
• Knowledge of Data Management architectures like Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Hub and the supporting processes like Data Integration, Governance, Metadata Management.
• Knowledge of data pipeline guiding principles, and best practices to build and maintain data pipelines.
• Skill in data storage, data processing, database fundamentals, data orchestration and automation, programming, CI/CD, data validation and testing, version control systems, scripting and coding, cloud migration, metadata management, infrastructure as a code (IAC), data monitoring and observability skills.
• Ability to build, manage and optimize data pipelines that facilitate data movement.
• Ability to reduce manual data work and improve productivity.
• Ability to build robust data operations and to identify critical issues faster in order to debug and troubleshoot quickly.
• Ability to work with and across teams and foster a cooperative and efficient working environment.
• Ability to consider and incorporate the implications of analysis into recommendations for business decisions.
• Ability to turn data insights into recommendations for both clients and internal stakeholders based on context.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Information Science or in a field related to the job, plus five (5) years related experience. Masters degree may substitute for experience up to two (2) years. Education or experience may substitute up to four (4) years.

Licenses and Certifications Required

None.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data architectures, including conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, dimensional modeling (Star Schema), data warehouses, and governed data marts to support enterprise analytics and data reuse.
• Experience establishing enterprise data governance frameworks, including data taxonomy, master data management (MDM), metadata management, data quality, lineage, and standardized data products to support a single source of truth.
• Hands-on experience architecting Microsoft Azure data platforms, including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure SQL Database, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, with advanced SQL proficiency and enterprise data integration experience.

Compensation Range

The annual hiring range for this position is $96,180.00-$123,100.00

Notes to Candidate

As an IT Data Architect, you will design, build, and optimize the enterprise data platform that powers reporting, analytics, artificial intelligence, and business decision-making. You'll develop scalable data pipelines, integrate data from multiple systems, and create modern data architectures such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data hubs. Working closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, engineers, and application teams, you'll ensure data is accurate, secure, accessible, and production-ready. This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking, requiring experience in ETL/ELT, SQL, cloud data platforms, data modeling, automation, and modern analytics technologies. Success in this position means transforming complex data into trusted enterprise assets that enable smarter decisions across the organization while following governance, security, and change management best practices.

Salary Range

$96,180-$123,100

Travel

This position requires traveling to multiple sites as part of the regular job duties. A driving record verification will be conducted. If you are selected for this position, and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Safety Program, you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations. Go to the Driver Safety Program for more information at City of Austin Driver Safety Standards.

Skills Assessment

A skills assessment/s will be required for this position.

Essential Personnel

This position is categorized as essential personnel. Essential personnel are required to come to work during emergencies or bad weather at the airport if they are scheduled to work and, in some cases, when they are not scheduled.

Language

Must have the ability to read, write, and fluently speak in English.

Work Hours

Monday -Friday 8:30 am-5:30 pm Hours may change according to departmental needs; work hours may include after hours, holidays, and weekend work.

Benefits

Working with Aviation provides a number of health and welfare benefits see City of Austin Promotional Benefits Overview and click HERE to learn more.

See us in action

Owned by the City of Austin and operated by the Department of Aviation, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is an economic engine, supplying over 74,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Central Texas region. Now, as we build the airport’s largest improvement program in its history, we are redefining the travel experience in one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team behind Journey With AUS, the airport’s expansion and development program, where bold ideas, cutting-edge infrastructure, and a shared commitment to excellence are taking flight.

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