Data Architect — AI‑Ready Data Platform (Hybrid)

CESO, Inc.; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 86,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and Hybrid Work Schedule

401K with a Company Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CESO, Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and maintain enterprise data architecture supporting reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, establish architecture standards, and ensure data reliability and governance across platforms. The role involves collaborating with Data Engineers, stakeholders, and IT teams to create scalable lakehouse/warehouse architectures on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, analytics engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience documenting and communicating technical architecture decisions and recommendations.
• Experience with cloud modernization and enterprise data platform initiatives is preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Azure SQL, data warehouses, data lakes, Data Factory or lakehouse architectures is required.
• Proficiency in SQL and relational/analytical data structures is required.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, data governance frameworks, and enterprise data management best practices.
• Understanding of security, access controls, privacy requirements, and compliance related to enterprise data is required.
• Experience designing data models for BI and KPI frameworks is preferred.
• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics initiatives is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, frameworks, design patterns, and best practices.
• Maintain logical, physical, dimensional, and semantic data models and scalable schema designs.
• Design and oversee enterprise data integration solutions, including APIs, ELT/ETL, cloud platforms, and reporting environments.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to design lakehouse, warehouse, and data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, SQL, and Azure technologies.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and architecture standards.
• Establish and maintain enterprise data governance, data quality, ownership, stewardship, classification, and retention standards.
• Provide architectural guidance for database optimization, indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• Review data solutions for alignment with standards, security, and business objectives; maintain data catalogs and lineage.
• Design data platform architectures for disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability.
• Support AI-ready data platforms enabling analytics, ML, automation, and future AI initiatives.
• Communicate data opportunities and decisions to stakeholders; collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Data governance

ETL/ELT design

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Architecture standards

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SQL Server

Azure SQL

Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Engineer

Job description

CESO, Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and maintain enterprise data architecture supporting reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, establish architecture standards, and ensure data reliability and governance across platforms. The role involves collaborating with Data Engineers, stakeholders, and IT teams to create scalable lakehouse/warehouse architectures on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, while ensuring