Staff Data Architect

Ad Hoc; Lynchburg (VA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Staff Data Architect to lead data strategy and governance. This role involves strategic data analysis, mentoring, and effective communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data architecture and modern practices, contributing to impactful digital services. Join a remote-first team committed to delivering high-quality solutions for government agencies.

Benefits

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with Employer Match

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in relevant fields.
• 2+ years as a data architect or similar role.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategic data analysis and provides program recommendations.
• Owns overall data strategy and oversees data collection.
• Mentors data analysts and architects.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Governance

Data Analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ML

Visualization Technologies

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit. A Staff Data Architect exhibits strong influential skills to represent the data practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in data architecture processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Data Architect include:

• Leads strategic and critical data analysis, summarizing findings to provide program recommendations
• Owns overall data strategy and oversees data collection, organization, and storage for program(s)
• Identifies business components and translates requirements into functional BI portals and dashboards
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions
• Responsible for data governance, eliminating gaps and improving data maturity
• Aligns data architecture and standardizes access patterns to make data available to BI tools, apps, and websites
• Oversees and aligns data organization, dictionary standardization, and glossary development with models
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications
• Serves as a mentor for data analysts, scientists, and architects
• Supports data team members with shipping features, providing direction and guidance
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, evaluates homework assignments

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• 2+ years of experience in a data architect or similar role
• Experience with modern data architecture practices and emerging technologies in streaming, large-scale data processing, databases, ML, applied statistics, and visualization technologies
• Experience solving complex business problems and understanding of the data architecture supporting them
• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $135,000 - $155,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.