Enterprise Data Architect: Cloud Migration & Governance

accel bi corporation; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

accel bi corporation is seeking a senior data professional to drive enterprise data strategy, migration planning, governance standards, data quality, metadata, and security across a complex modernization program.

You will collaborate with business, technical, vendor, and executive stakeholders, lead data architecture initiatives, and help ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field.
• 7+ years in IT, data analysis, data architecture, modernization, or enterprise data environments.
• 5+ years leadership in data architecture, migration, governance, or enterprise data management.
• Experience with enterprise data models, data flows, metadata, lineage, data quality, governance.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, APIs, ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, and integration patterns.
• Experience supporting large-scale data migration or modernization projects.
• Knowledge of privacy, security, compliance, and data protection requirements.
• Strong communication skills for complex topics to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and migration efforts.
• Support modernization of legacy data environments into cloud-first platforms.
• Define data standards, models, metadata, lineage, and governance processes.
• Lead data profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, validation, and readiness.
• Embed privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and data quality controls into designs.
• Collaborate with state agency stakeholders, vendors, architects, cybersecurity, analysts, and leadership.
• Prepare data architecture documents, migration plans, governance artifacts, runbooks, scorecards, and executive materials.
• Support Agile ceremonies, design reviews, risk discussions, and program planning.

Skills

Leadership

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Cloud data platforms

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

accel bi corporation is seeking a senior data professional to drive enterprise data strategy, migration planning, governance standards, data quality, metadata, and security across a complex modernization program.

You will collaborate with business, technical, vendor, and executive stakeholders, lead data architecture initiatives, and help ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance in a cloud-first environment.