Enterprise Data Architect & Team Lead

Peraton; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to lead a team responsible for the design, governance, and integration of enterprise data across mission environments. You will shape conceptual, logical, and physical data models, drive canonical and semantic data structures, and coordinate with engineering, analytics, AI, and product teams.

You will guide adoption of lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric patterns, establish data contracts, and oversee metadata, lineage, and security practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise information architecture roles.
• Experience designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for analytics and transactional applications.
• Proficiency with modern data platforms and patterns including lakehouse, data mesh, streaming, and multi-cloud ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers in designing models for analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise integration.
• Develop and maintain canonical data models, semantic layers, and metadata structures aligned with data strategies.
• Guide adoption of modern architectural patterns and data governance practices across teams.
• Partner with data engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and AI teams to support scalable pipelines and ML workloads.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Data governance

Cloud platforms

ETL/ELT

Data integration

Zero Trust

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related

Tools

ERWin

ER/Studio

dbt

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Job description

Steampunk seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to lead a team responsible for the design, governance, and integration of enterprise data across mission environments. You will shape conceptual, logical, and physical data models, drive canonical and semantic data structures, and coordinate with engineering, analytics, AI, and product teams.

You will guide adoption of lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric patterns, establish data contracts, and oversee metadata, lineage, and security practices.