Remote Senior Data Architect | Data Governance & AI Readiness

Citizant; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Generous PTO

Life and disability insurance

FSA

Job summary

Citizant is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join our Washington, DC area team. You will partner with federal clients to advance enterprise data management, governance, and modernization by documenting data assets, lineage, and metadata.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and technical stakeholders, producing artifacts and visualizations that support data catalog onboarding, governance, and AI readiness across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Cybersecurity or related field.
• 8 years of experience in data architecture, data analysis, data governance, or related domains.
• Proficiency in data modeling and documenting enterprise systems.
• Experience curating and enriching enterprise data assets for AI/readiness.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and working with SMEs and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform data-centric analysis of enterprise applications, databases, interfaces, and processes to identify data assets and relationships.
• Document data flows and dependencies across enterprise systems.
• Develop and maintain metadata, data dictionaries, and data lineage artifacts.
• Prepare metadata for onboarding into the enterprise data catalog and ensure discoverability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify critical data assets and define metadata standards.
• Recommend improvements to data governance processes and catalog capabilities.
• Maintain data definitions, health metrics, and governance documentation.
• Conduct AI data curation to enhance readiness for AI/ML and analytics use cases.
• Translate complex architectures into clear visualizations and documentation for varied audiences.
• Provide thought leadership on enterprise data management and modernization best practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Data analysis

Data governance

Data modeling

Agile collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Cybersecurity

Tools

ER Studio

GitHub

Job description

Citizant is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join our Washington, DC area team. You will partner with federal clients to advance enterprise data management, governance, and modernization by documenting data assets, lineage, and metadata.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and technical stakeholders, producing artifacts and visualizations that support data catalog onboarding, governance, and AI readiness across the organization.