Enterprise Data Architect: Unified Data Modeling

Ashley Furniture Industries; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Furniture Industries is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to define the shared data foundation across the enterprise. You will translate business concepts into reusable models and authoritative definitions to accelerate decision-making and ensure AI initiatives run on trusted data.

The role focuses on enterprise data architecture, cross-domain alignment, and providing guidance to data product teams while not owning physical data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in enterprise data modeling, data architecture, or semantic modeling.
• Experience developing conceptual and logical data models across multiple business domains.
• Translate business language into precise data definitions and entities.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with metadata, data catalogs, governance, and quality concepts.
• Strong written communication for model docs and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise conceptual and logical data models for key business domains.
• Establish clear representations of business entities, relationships, and domain boundaries.
• Provide architectural guidance that promotes consistency while supporting team autonomy.
• Apply enterprise modeling and naming standards through practical guidance and review.
• Identify gaps in standards based on real-world usage and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Data Product Management and delivery teams to embed enterprise context into design.
• Ensure data context is usable and reliable for AI, analytics, and semantic layers.
• Ensure alignment between data products and enterprise models without slowing delivery.
• Provide guidance that improves delivery speed and reduces rework.
• Support the operationalization of data context in catalogs, semantic layers, and data products.

Skills

Enterprise data modeling

Data architecture

Semantic modeling

Cross-functional alignment

Metadata management

Data governance

Documentation

Tools

Enterprise modeling tools

Metadata repositories

Knowledge graph / ontology patterns

Job description

Ashley Furniture Industries is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to define the shared data foundation across the enterprise. You will translate business concepts into reusable models and authoritative definitions to accelerate decision-making and ensure AI initiatives run on trusted data.

The role focuses on enterprise data architecture, cross-domain alignment, and providing guidance to data product teams while not owning physical data pipelines.