Senior Data Architect — Unified Analytics & Governance

Cordance; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401K match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Remote work stipend

Job summary

Cordance is seeking a Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture for Cordance Commerce, unifying reporting, data models, and analytics across multiple products. This hands-on leadership role partners with DBAs, BI, engineering, product, and finance to create a scalable, governed data platform and a practical migration strategy with strong data governance.

You will guide architecture decisions, ensure performance, and enable trusted dashboards and cross-product reporting for operational,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in data engineering, analytics, or BI with 3+ years in architecture/leadership.
• Experience designing data warehouses/lakehouses and migrating data from multiple systems.
• Strong data modeling: conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state data architecture and roadmap for unified reporting across Cordance Commerce products.
• Assess data pipelines, reporting tools, and catalog dependencies; document risks and constraints.
• Design shared enterprise data model, master-data strategy, and system-of-record ownership for core entities.
• Plan separation of transactional and analytical workloads using cloud data warehouses or lakehouses; evaluate Snowflake and other platforms.
• Lead migration strategy across products while ensuring business continuity and reporting.
• Develop data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata patterns; ensure quality and observability.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Cloud data platforms

Communication

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Management

Tools

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL

Job description

Cordance is seeking a Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture for Cordance Commerce, unifying reporting, data models, and analytics across multiple products. This hands-on leadership role partners with DBAs, BI, engineering, product, and finance to create a scalable, governed data platform and a practical migration strategy with strong data governance.

You will guide architecture decisions, ensure performance, and enable trusted dashboards and cross-product reporting for operational,