Lead Data Architect

Kansas City National Security Campus

Kansas City (MO)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Industry leading 401(k) match

Generous paid time off

Flexible work schedule

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Certification & License

Mission driven culture

Job summary

Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) seeks a Lead IT Data Planning professional to architect and govern enterprise data, and to guide BI reporting and analytics workflows. You will design data pipelines, models, and metadata strategies while aligning with DOE requirements and enterprise architecture.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience, with the ability to obtain a DOE security clearance and travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; 7+ years relevant experience.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance.
Willingness to travel up to 10% as needed.

Responsibilities

Designs and manages data pipelines and models across complex structures.
Integrates BI reporting, analytics, and data science outputs into processes.
Leads customer discussions to align data requirements with enterprise strategy.
Drives data governance, standards, and conformance across the data environment.
Mentors team members and develops training to maintain currency.

Skills

Data planning

Project leadership

Data governance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

7+ years of experience

Tools

Informatica

Microsoft Data Services

MicroStrategy

Tableau

Denodo

Collibra

Job description

The Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, is a premier advanced manufacturing facility that supports the safety, security, reliability and effectiveness of our nation's nuclear deterrent. With nearly 7,000 employees combined in Kansas City, Missouri, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, KCNSC protects our nation and allies by producing trusted national security products and services for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

We create innovative solutions to complex national security challenges, and lead with accountability, collaboration and an unwavering dedication to our mission and core values.

Are you ready to do work that matters?

Summary

Leads and coordinates highly complex or enterprise critical projects that architects an efficient way to manage data across a diverse but unified data tier. Designs, translates business requirements, develops, documents, tests, monitors, troubleshoots, and administrates our data environment using our data management tool sets.

Duties and Responsibilities

Designs, builds, and follows data pipelines for complex data structures encompassing data transformation mapping, data flow diagrams, logical and physical data models, and metadata collection. Accountable for developing, managing, and integrating business intelligence reporting, analytics, and data science output into business processes and workflows.
Provides a standard common business vocabulary, express strategic data requirements, outline high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and align with enterprise strategy and related business architectures.
Leads planning sessions with customers to improve business processes and prioritize investments in data and infrastructure.
Proactively analyzes existing data structures or reporting to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements.
Leads and oversees effort to identify data requirements, develops data specifications, establishes, and enforces data governance, applies data modeling patterns, develops complex data conversion and migration designs, and develops convergence plans toward data standards.
Accountable for developing and executing best practices for naming, governing, managing, modeling, cleansing, transforming, moving, storing, and searching all data. Ensure changes to the data environment are compliant to the architectural standards.
Leads design and data model reviews providing constructive feedback to team.
Maintains and ensures adherence to data quality standards and procedures. Reviews data models for data quality assurance and validates compliance with data architecture standards.
Provides technical guidance, leadership and coaching to team members, to include sharing business acumen. Proven ability to mentor peers and identify/develop training plans and strategies to maintain technical currency.

You Must Have

Bachelors degree required
7 or more years of direct work experience
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
United States Citizenship
Ability to work on-site as directed by management and as determined by the needs of the business
Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations)

We Value

Lead IT Data Planning

Proven experience developing strategic plans with the ability to articulate a clear, business-centric vision.
Ability to identify and prioritize innovation opportunities and assess emerging technologies.
Experience creating phased transformation roadmaps, including phases, milestones, dependencies, and sequencing.
Broad industry knowledge across the data ecosystem: source systems, transformation, processing, storage, consumption, BI reporting, and data visualization.
Visionary mindset with the ability to foster a culture of experimentation, supported by strong enterprise-architecture skills.
Ability to monitor emerging threats and regulatory changes to keep the organization compliant with data-privacy, cybersecurity, and DOE-specific regulations.
Expert-level capability defining conceptual, logical, and physical data architecture.
Experience with data-management tools and platforms such as Informatica, Microsoft Data Services, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Denodo, and Collibra.

Data Execution Planning Responsibilities

Coordinate with business units for project sourcing.
Align operations and planning activities with NNSA partners.
Work with service-delivery managers to match technical needs with available resources.
Ensure funding availability and planning in collaboration with Finance.
Sync practices and roadmap direction with Enterprise Architecture & Planning (EAP).

This job description is not all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned. Employees must maintain regular, reliable attendance, and be able to work on-site and travel as needed.

What We Offer

We are focused on attracting, hiring and retaining talented people who power our mission. Our robust total rewards package recognizes performance, fuels development and supports flexibility. Key features include:

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Industry leading 401(k) match
Generous paid time off
Flexible work schedule
Tuition Reimbursement
Professional Certification & License Programs
Mission driven culture

We are required by the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review, including checks of references, credit, law enforcement records and employment/education history. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Dual citizenship may affect clearance eligibility.

All employment offers are contingent on a federal background investigation. Substance abuse, illegal drug use, falsified information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness may result in denial or loss of clearance and termination of employment.

Honeywell Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Requirements For MedPEDs

If you have a medical portable electronic device (MedPED) — such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids or diagnostic equipment used to measure or monitor body functions — you may be required to meet NNSA security requirements if employed by us.

If you have a MedPED and are selected for an on-site interview, additional steps may be required to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements before your interview date.If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application, please send an email to our Reasonable Accommodation Support Team at staffing@kcnsc.doe.gov.

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