Data Architect — AI & Analytics on AWS/Snowflake

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include building data models, defining standards, and leading ingestion, storage, and consumption pipelines.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship and must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS 'PUBLIC TRUST'.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related technical roles.
• Experience designing data architectures in AWS and Snowflake environments.
• Experience with data modeling (logical and physical) and enterprise data design.
• Experience supporting data governance and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment in the DC area.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models supporting enterprise 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

Data modeling

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

AWS

Snowflake

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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

Responsibilities include building data models, defining standards, and leading ingestion, storage, and consumption pipelines.