Enterprise Data Architect - Azure & Data Governance

Washington Business Dynamics; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) Immediate Vesting

Professional Development Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Data Architect to design and govern the enterprise data landscape across on‑premises and Azure cloud, partnering with Security, Infrastructure and Business Solutions to translate needs into a coherent data platform.

Responsibilities include shaping standards, leading data integration across ERP/HRIS/CRM/financial systems, and ensuring data security and compliance while mentoring engineers and analysts.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen to meet eligibility.
• Relational and dimensional modeling with lakehouse and NoSQL patterns.
• Hands-on with at least one cloud data platform (Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Databricks) and SQL Server/Oracle.
• Data governance concepts: cataloging, lineage, quality, and MDM.
• Integrates data across ERP, HRIS, CRM, financial and cloud systems.
• Translates business requirements into scalable data architecture and standards.
• Explains architecture decisions to executives and documents proposals.
• Ensures data security and compliance including RBAC, classification, encryption.
• Collaborates across Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture (conceptual, logical, physical models).
• Lead evaluation/selection of data platform technologies and produce executive-ready recommendations.
• Design data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, APIs, streaming) across on-prem and cloud.
• Establish data governance standards with data owners.
• Collaborate with Security/Compliance on storage and access controls (NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0).
• Guide cloud migration workstreams and decommission legacy stores.
• Review data delivery designs for alignment with enterprise standards and document decisions.
• Mentor engineers on modeling, performance, and cost-aware design; communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Relational modeling

Dimensional modeling

Data governance

Security/compliance

Architecture communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure Synapse

Snowflake

Databricks

SQL Server

Oracle Database

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Job description

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Data Architect to design and govern the enterprise data landscape across on‑premises and Azure cloud, partnering with Security, Infrastructure and Business Solutions to translate needs into a coherent data platform.

Responsibilities include shaping standards, leading data integration across ERP/HRIS/CRM/financial systems, and ensuring data security and compliance while mentoring engineers and analysts.