Data Architect / Data Engineer

Apex Systems; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life and disability insurance

ESP P and 401K with company match

HSA and EAP

Certification discounts and training

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems in Chandler, Arizona, is seeking a Data Architect/Data Engineer to develop and govern AI-ready data foundations. The role covers structured and unstructured data, with a focus on metadata, lineage, and scalable pipelines for model-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities include defining standards, collaborating with domain experts, and ensuring high data quality and trust. Hybrid work model with a 12-month duration is expected, supporting enterprise AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field is preferred.
• Experience engineering and managing structured and unstructured data for analytics or model-enabled solutions in regulated environments.
• Proven expertise in data modeling, governance, lineage, and metadata standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data and knowledge assets to support AI and agentic use-cases across sources.
• Define standards for organizing and preparing documentation, telemetry, metadata, and operating knowledge for model consumption.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to capture domain knowledge for improved model grounding.
• Design scalable methods for storing, governing, indexing, and retrieving context assets.
• Implement data quality controls and governance to prevent issues downstream.
• Identify upstream data quality issues and drive remediation with reliable source data.
• Define data ownership, lineage, freshness, stewardship, and governance expectations.
• Build pipelines and transformations to improve data quality and accessibility.
• Create reusable templates and guidance for knowledge artifacts and context management.
• Monitor health and readiness of data assets and prioritize remediation.

Skills

Data modeling

Data governance

ML systems

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Job#: 3057776

Job Description

Data Architect/ Data Engineer

Location: Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview

This position is responsible for developing, governing, and improving the data and knowledge foundations that support artificial intelligence and agentic capabilities across network services. The selected candidate will work across structured and unstructured data sources to ensure information is defined, organized, governed, and made available in a manner suitable for model consumption. This professional will establish standards, guidelines, and guardrails for how operational knowledge, documentation, configurations, telemetry, metadata, and other contextual assets are curated and prepared for trusted model use. Collaboration with product and service subject matter experts is essential to translate high-quality data and knowledge into reusable, AI-ready assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data and knowledge assets that support AI and agentic use-cases, including both structured and unstructured sources.
• Define and apply standards for how documentation, configurations, telemetry, metadata, policies, and operational knowledge should be organized and prepared for model consumption.
• Partner with product and service subject matter experts to understand technologies, operational context, and domain-specific knowledge required to improve model grounding and decision quality.
• Design and implement scalable methods for storing, governing, indexing, and retrieving context assets needed for enabled workflows and solutions.
• Establish and improve preventative and detective controls that identify and reduce data quality, metadata quality, knowledge quality, and freshness issues before they affect downstream use.
• Contribute to data quality remediation efforts by identifying upstream sources of issues, defining corrective actions, and improving the reliability of data at the source.
• Define and maintain expectations for data ownership, lineage, freshness, stewardship, and governance across relevant data and knowledge domains.
• Build and enhance pipelines, transformations, validation routines, and supporting services that improve the quality and accessibility of data and knowledge assets.
• Support the creation of reusable templates, patterns, and guidance for knowledge artifacts, documentation standards, and context management practices.
• Monitor and communicate the health, readiness, and quality of relevant data and knowledge assets, including issues, gaps, and remediation priorities.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field is preferred.

Experience: Documented experience engineering and managing both structured and unstructured data used for analytics, automation, search, or model-enabled solutions within a regulated enterprise environment.

Technical Skills: Proven expertise in data modeling and architecture, data governance protection, data management, and machine learning systems. Proficiency in designing scalable data pipelines, implementing data quality controls, and establishing lineage and metadata standards is required.

Benefits Overview

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.
• You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Everforth Apex 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. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Corporate Information

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Everforth Apex 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. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex.