Senior Data Architect – Enterprise Modernization & IV&V

Tech Army, LLC; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Army, LLC is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support enterprise modernization and IV&V for a 12-month engagement in Tallahassee, FL. The role emphasizes architecture assessment, data migration, data quality controls, and governance, without owning day-to-day development.

Candidates should excel in data modeling, ETL/ELT, APIs, and multi-system integrations, with strong communication to executives and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to model conceptual, logical and physical data for enterprise architectures.
• Strong SQL and relational database design skills.
• Experience with data migration/conversion strategies and source-to-target mappings.
• Expertise in ETL/ELT and enterprise data integration.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage, and auditability.
• Familiarity with SDLC, system integration testing, and traceability.
• Ability to perform architecture reviews and risk assessments at program level.
• Effective communication with executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Review current and proposed enterprise data architectures, designs, schemas, and models.
• Evaluate multiple data models for architectural consistency across the solution.
• Assess data migration, transformation, sequencing, and cutover readiness.
• Assess data profiling, cleansing, deduplication, accuracy, and quality controls.
• Identify risks around historical data, referential integrity, and data loss.
• Review ETL/ELT processes, APIs, interfaces, messaging, and data exchange structures.
• Evaluate data exchanges between AIMS, FDLE systems, and external partners.
• Verify requirements traceability through architecture, development, testing, and implementation.
• Evaluate testing coverage, acceptance criteria, and cutover readiness.
• Review data governance, metadata, lineage, access controls, and change management.
• Assess backup, high availability, DR, and operational readiness.
• Provide remediation recommendations and contribute to IV&V reports and briefings.
• Collaborate with technical teams, leadership, and oversight bodies while remaining independent.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Data migration

ETL/ELT

Data governance

SDLC/testing

Architecture risk

Stakeholder comms

Legacy modernization

APIs/multi-system

Data quality

Requirements mgmt

Security/compliance

Tools

Oracle Database

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure data integration

ETL/ELT tools

API/messaging

SharePoint

Visio

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Tech Army, LLC is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support enterprise modernization and IV&V for a 12-month engagement in Tallahassee, FL. The role emphasizes architecture assessment, data migration, data quality controls, and governance, without owning day-to-day development.

Candidates should excel in data modeling, ETL/ELT, APIs, and multi-system integrations, with strong communication to executives and stakeholders.