Senior Data Architect: Remote, Data Governance & AI

Citizant; United States; 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

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Tuition Assistance & Professional Dev.

Job summary

Citizant is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join a remote, US-based team addressing enterprise data management, governance, and modernization for federal-focused clients. You will document data assets, metadata, lineage, and data flows, aligning with CDO initiatives and enterprise data catalog onboarding.

The role requires hands-on data modeling, governance artifacts, and collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to ensure accurate, discoverable data representations across

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in data architecture, data analysis, data governance, or related technical domains.
• Expertise in data modeling and documenting enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience curating and enriching enterprise data assets to improve data quality and discoverability.
• Experience collaborating with SMEs and technical teams to gather and document data requirements.
• Hands-on experience participating in Agile teams and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Perform data-centric analysis of enterprise applications, databases, interfaces, and processes to identify enterprise data assets and relationships.
• Analyze application architectures and data flows to document movement, transformation, and consumption of data across systems.
• Develop, document, and maintain metadata, data dictionaries, logical data models, and data lineage for governance artifacts.
• Prepare, validate, and curate metadata for onboarding into the enterprise data catalog.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify critical data assets, define metadata standards, and improve data asset visibility.
• Recommend enhancements to data governance processes and catalog capabilities to boost data literacy and adoption.
• Maintain enterprise data definitions, data health metrics, reference data, and governance documentation.
• Perform AI data curation activities to improve readiness for AI/ML use cases.
• Translate complex data architectures into visuals and documentation for varied audiences.
• Provide thought leadership on data management, metadata management, and data modernization.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

8 years experience in data

Data modeling

Agile teamwork

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

ER Studio

GitHub

Job description

Citizant is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join a remote, US-based team addressing enterprise data management, governance, and modernization for federal-focused clients. You will document data assets, metadata, lineage, and data flows, aligning with CDO initiatives and enterprise data catalog onboarding.

The role requires hands-on data modeling, governance artifacts, and collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to ensure accurate, discoverable data representations across