Hybrid Enterprise Data Architect | Governance & Strategy

Versique Consulting & Search; BLOOMINGTON (MN); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

MN ESST

MN PFML

Job summary

Versique Consulting & Search in Bloomington, MN specializes in executive data roles and is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design enterprise data capabilities. You will lead governance, set standards, and steer semantic modeling strategies across analytics, reporting, and decision support.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data architecture, data warehousing, data governance, and knowledge of semantic layers; you will mentor teams, influence stakeholders, and align data initiatives with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, information systems, data management, engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise data architecture and governance initiatives.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing data warehouses, data lakes, analytical platforms, semantic layers, and data governance programs.
• Proven expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
• Strong metadata management, data lineage, data quality, cataloging and lifecycle practices.
• Ability to align technical architecture with business strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, frameworks and best practices.
• Design scalable data solutions to support reporting and analytics.
• Promote data quality, governance and long-term sustainability across systems.
• Align data architecture with business objectives and organizational needs.
• Lead development of enterprise data models, metadata standards and governance practices.
• Establish processes for data quality, lineage, privacy and lifecycle management.
• Partner with business and technical teams to improve data accessibility and trust.
• Support adoption of consistent business definitions and reporting standards.
• Communicate architectural recommendations and strategic direction to leadership.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Data modeling

Data warehousing

Semantic modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Data Management

Tools

Knowledge graphs

Ontologies

Semantic technologies

Job description

Versique Consulting & Search in Bloomington, MN specializes in executive data roles and is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design enterprise data capabilities. You will lead governance, set standards, and steer semantic modeling strategies across analytics, reporting, and decision support.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data architecture, data warehousing, data governance, and knowledge of semantic layers; you will mentor teams, influence stakeholders, and align data initiatives with