Principal Data Architect
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Principal Data Architect at Committee for Children, defining and evolving data architecture for a social enterprise. Collaborate with teams to ensure data governance and accessibility for child welfare programs.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve CFC-wide data architecture across all major systems and platforms
- Establish clear data domains, system boundaries, and integration patterns
- Assess current and future organizational data needs and translate them into architectural direction
- Develop long-term data architecture patterns that balance scalability, maintainability, and delivery constraints
- Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models representing CFC’s core entities, relationships, and measures
- Define, document, and govern source system schemas including canonical fields, data types, naming standards, and versioning approaches
- Establish systems of record and systems of reference for key domains such as accounts, licenses, users, and programs
- Ensure consistent implementation of data models across operational systems
- Create clear documentation that enables shared understanding across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Architect and guide data flows between CFC systems to support operations, analytics, research, and decision-making
- Design integration and transformation approaches that preserve semantic meaning
- Oversee large-scale data integration, transformation, and storage patterns for reliable analytics
- Monitor and evolve data flows to reduce duplication, fragility, and unnecessary complexity
- Embed privacy, security, and compliance requirements directly into data models and integrations
- Partner with IT, security, and legal teams to align architecture with regulatory and policy requirements
- Ensure privacy and security protocols, including field-level encryption, role-based access control, deletion, and auditing are architected into and consistently supported across CFC’s data architecture
- Define data quality standards and validation strategies, including management of schema drift over time
- Enablement & Collaboration
- Work closely with engineers, analysts, researchers, data stewards, and business partners
- Serve as a subject-matter expert on CFC’s data architecture
- Communicate complex data concepts clearly to diverse audiences
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience designing and delivering data solutions, with at least 5 years in a data architecture role.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience with relational databases and SQL
- 2+ years' experience with Lakehouse architectures, including Delta Lake technologies and medallion layer data modeling
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data models and source schemas
- Experience with data integration, transformation, and cleansing technologies
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance principles
- Experience with cloud-based platforms (Azure preferred)
- Experience with custom-built data systems, semi-structured data, data quality issues, and data optimization.
- Ability to analyze undocumented data structures, identify source-to-target mappings, and uncover hidden data dependencies.
Benefits:
- We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent’s medical and dental premiums
- Retirement plan + company match up to 3%
- A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs
- 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual
- Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.
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