Lead Data Architect
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Lead Data Architect owning enterprise data architecture for C5MI Insight’s federal SAP S/4HANA modernization program. Leading data governance, migration, analytics architecture, and master data teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own the target-state enterprise data architecture and conceptual, logical, and physical data models for financial, organizational, asset, material, and business partner master data domains
- Lead and develop the data architecture and master data team; allocate work and own team performance and capability development
- Establish the master data governance operating model, including domain ownership, stewardship assignment, approval workflows, data quality rules, and measurable data quality standards
- Own legacy data migration architecture, including source discovery and profiling, extraction, transformation and mapping governance, staging design, and source-to-target lineage
- Define data validation, reconciliation, and acceptance criteria for mock conversion cycles and production cutover; report readiness at milestone gates
- Design organizational data structures aligning financial objects to the customer’s force structure hierarchy
- Govern analytics and data fabric architecture, including ingestion, layered curation, semantic modeling, and governed downstream consumption
- Establish reconciliation architecture between the financial system of record, subledgers, external interfaces, and reporting layer
- Define data retention, archiving, classification, and protection standards for federal records and controlled unclassified information
- Partner with solution and cloud architecture functions on performant, secure, authorizable, and sustainable data designs
- Present and defend data architecture and migration readiness at design reviews, readiness reviews, and cutover decisions
- Advise program leadership on migration complexity, data quality exposure, and schedule implications
- Mentor data practitioners and raise modeling, governance, and stewardship maturity
- Perform people-leader functions including coaching, evaluations, development planning, workforce planning, compliance, and stakeholder alignment
- Adhere to company policies, quality assurance activities, information security policies, and perform other assigned tasks
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; 8-12 years of relevant experience and 3-5 years of people leadership experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 10-14 years of relevant experience and 5-8 years of people leadership experience without a degree
- 8+ years of enterprise data architecture, data modeling, or data management experience on large-scale system implementations
- Demonstrated experience owning data architecture for at least one full lifecycle ERP implementation, including legacy data migration to a target platform
- Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, canonical data models, data lineage, and data quality management
- Experience establishing a master data governance operating model, including stewardship roles, data quality rules, and governance workflow
- Hands-on experience with enterprise data migration tooling and methods, including extraction, profiling, cleansing, transformation, load, and reconciliation
- Experience designing analytics or data platform architectures, including layered curation and semantic modeling for enterprise reporting
- Experience leading a data team, including work allocation, quality review, and performance management
- Secret security clearance required: must hold an active Secret clearance or be able to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; requires U.S. citizenship
- Advanced certifications valued
- Experience with SAP Master Data Governance and SAP data migration tooling, including the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit and SAP Data Services
- Industry-recognized data management, data architecture, or SAP certification; relevant certifications include CDMP or SAP Master Data Governance
- Experience supporting federal ERP modernization programs, Department of War (DoW) SAP environments, or other defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75
- Familiarity with Department of War data strategy principles and authoritative data source designation
- Familiarity with federal financial audit drivers, including FIAR methodology, DoD 7000.14-R, and FFMIA
- Experience with cloud data platform technologies supporting large-scale analytical workloads
- Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites
Benefits:
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Personal development support
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