Enterprise Data Architect for AI & Analytics

CESO, Inc.; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

401K with company match

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Training & development

Job summary

CESO, Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and maintain the enterprise data architecture across our platforms.

You will translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, govern data, and partner with engineers on lakehouse, warehouse, and pipeline initiatives using Microsoft Fabric and Azure technologies. Ideal candidates have strong SQL, data modeling, and governance skills, plus experience with cloud platforms and analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
• Master’s degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, frameworks, design patterns, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, security, and maintainability across the company's data platforms and solutions.
• Develop and maintain logical, physical, dimensional, and semantic data models. Design enterprise database architectures, backend data structures, and scalable schema designs that support business applications, integrations, analytics, and AI initiatives.
• Design and oversee enterprise data integration solutions, including APIs, ELT/ETL processes, cloud platforms, and reporting environments, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable data movement
• Partner with Data Engineers to design scalable lakehouse, warehouse, and data pipeline solutions using Microsoft Fabric, SQL, and Azure technologies.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Assist in establishing and maintaining enterprise data governance and compliance practices, including data quality, data ownership, stewardship, classification, and retention standards.
• Provide architectural guidance for databases optimization, indexing strategies, partitioning, and performance tuning to support enterprise-scale workloads
• Review data solutions for alignment with architecture standards, security requirements, and business objectives while maintaining documentation, data catalogs and lineage information.
• Design enterprise data platform architectures that support disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high availability requirements.
• Support the development of AI-ready data platforms that enable advanced analytics, machine learning, automation, and future AI initiatives.
• Provide analytical and problem-solving expertise to evaluate data-related opportunities, and decisions and communication them to relevant parties within the organization.
• Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements, align priorities, and deliver enterprise data solutions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

Data governance

Security & compliance

Stakeholder communication

Cloud modernization

AI data platforms

Education

Bachelors in CS/IS/Data Eng

Masters preferred

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Engineer

Azure Data Fundamentals

SQL Server/Azure SQL

Data Factory

Lakehouse architectures

Job description

CESO, Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to design, implement, and maintain the enterprise data architecture across our platforms.

You will translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, govern data, and partner with engineers on lakehouse, warehouse, and pipeline initiatives using Microsoft Fabric and Azure technologies. Ideal candidates have strong SQL, data modeling, and governance skills, plus experience with cloud platforms and analytics.