Director of Enterprise Data Architecture

Ziff Davis, Inc.; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ookla’s Chief Data & Analytics Office seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and maintain enterprise data architecture, standards, and reference models. You will translate business and technology priorities into scalable data designs across product, engineering, analytics, governance, and platform teams.

You will guide modernization of the data landscape, ensure interoperability, security, and performance, and provide mentorship to engineers and analysts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, data engineering, enterprise architecture, or related tech disciplines.
• Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data models, integration patterns, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience partnering with engineering, platform, analytics, governance, and product teams to deliver data architecture outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Develop and steward enterprise data models, canonical definitions, schema standards, and reference data structures.
• Translate business, product, analytics, and engineering needs into scalable data designs and integration patterns.
• Support architecture reviews, solution design, and integration decisions to ensure interoperability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Modernize the data landscape by simplifying data structures, reducing technical debt, and retiring obsolete data patterns where appropriate.
• Guide technology choices related to data storage, processing, integration, APIs, metadata, and data services.
• Ensure data architecture aligns with governance, data quality, privacy, security, lifecycle management, and enterprise standards.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership, documentation, and mentorship to data engineers, modelers, analysts, and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Canonical modeling

Reference data structures

Metadata

Data lineage

APIs

Integration patterns

Batch and streaming architectures

Data architecture standards

Design guidelines

Data governance

Data quality

Privacy and security

Data lifecycle management

Enterprise architecture practices

Communication & stakeholder management

Strategic and pragmatic mindset

Education

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

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Ookla’s Chief Data & Analytics Office seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and maintain enterprise data architecture, standards, and reference models. You will translate business and technology priorities into scalable data designs across product, engineering, analytics, governance, and platform teams.

You will guide modernization of the data landscape, ensure interoperability, security, and performance, and provide mentorship to engineers and analysts.