Data Quality Architect

Software Technology Inc.; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Software Technology Inc. in Greensboro, NC is seeking an experienced data quality and migration architect to own end-to-end migration governance, from framework design to decommissioning.

You will lead the pilot gates, defend routing decisions, and chair weekly governance with the client DQ lead. You will direct alias-to-table mappings, retirement validation of candidate jobs, and ensure parity sign-off before cutover.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data quality, data engineering or data platform architecture, incl. migration leadership.
• Hands-on Databricks experience to review code and challenge design decisions.
• Experience with Collibra DQ or equivalent enterprise DQ platforms.
• Proven ownership of a data decommission programme.
• Ability to candidly communicate with clients while preserving schedule and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of migration end to end from framework design through to Collibra DQ decommission.
• Defend native-monitoring vs generated-SQL routing decisions with client and revise as pilot evidence lands.
• Own the pilot gate go/no-go and ensure exit criteria are met for each dataset.
• Chair weekly governance with client’s DQ lead and report progress, risk and defect trends to sponsors.
• Direct alias-to-table mapping, retirement validation of candidate jobs, and scope adjudication with the client DQ team.
• Own parity sign-off so no dataset is cut over without written steward approval.

Skills

Data quality leadership

Databricks Unity Catalog

Collibra DQ / Enterprise DQ

Decommissioning programmes

Stakeholder management

Job description

• Own delivery of the migration end to end, from framework design through to Collibra DQ decommission.
• Make and defend the native-monitoring versus generated-SQL routing decision with client, and revise it as pilot evidence lands.
• Own the pilot gate go/no-go — scale does not begin until every exit criterion is demonstrably met, including measured effort per dataset.
• Chair the weekly working gate with client’s DQ lead, and report progress, risk and defect trend to programme sponsors.
• Direct alias-to-table mapping, retirement validation of candidate jobs, and scope adjudication with the client DQ team.
• Own the parity sign-off process so that no dataset is cut over without written steward approval.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years in data quality, data engineering or data platform architecture, including experience leading a migration to a client-facing gate.
• Hands-on Databricks — Unity Catalog, Delta Lake and Workflows — sufficient to review generated code and challenge design decisions credibly.
• Working knowledge of Collibra DQ or an equivalent enterprise DQ platform such as Informatica DQ, Ataccama, Soda or Monte Carlo.
• Proven ownership of a decommission programme where the legacy system could not be switched off without documented evidence.
• Able to hold a client conversation in which the honest answer is “not yet”, and keep both the schedule and the relationship intact.

Preferred:

• Retail, apparel or CPG data domain exposure.
• Experience defining test strategy for a data migration, even where not personally executing it.