Data Architect-Advisory

Data Architect-Advisory

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Data Architect-Advisory role in Plano, TX.

Position Title: Data Architect-Advisory

Location: Plano, TX

Pay Rate: $61/hr - $62/hr

Anticipated Start Date: 1/26/2025
Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 12 Months contract to hire position

Job Type: (40+ HOURS WEEKLY], [CONTRACT]

Required Skills

• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex data requirements into strategic architecture solutions across multiple domains.
• Proven leadership, communication, and advisory capabilities with a track record of influencing enterprise-level technology decisions and driving architectural standards.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, solution architecture, or similar senior technical roles.
• Deep expertise in modern data architectures such as data lakehouse, data warehouse, operational data stores, and streaming/event-driven patterns.
• Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, leveraging tools like Erwin to deliver scalable, enterprise-grade data models.
• Experience designing or advising on AI/ML and IoT architectures, ensuring seamless integration into enterprise data ecosystems.
• Extensive experience in architecture governance, including conducting design reviews and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards in large-scale environments.
• Strong knowledge of data security principles - RBAC, ABAC, encryption, tokenization.
• Comprehensive technical proficiency across cloud platforms, data engineering, security, observability, databases, and BI tools, including:
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, EMR, IAM, Lake Formation); GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).
  • Data Engineering & Analytics: Databricks (Delta Lake, SQL, ML, Unity Catalog, Workflows).
  • Data Virtualization & Security: Denodo, Protegrity.
  • Observability & Operations: Datadog, ServiceNow.
  • Databases: Enterprise RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2); Cloud data stores (Snowflake, DynamoDB, BigQuery).
  • BI Tools: Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI.
• Expert ability to assess architectural trade-offs, articulate design rationale, and align decisions with business objectives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Expertise That Strengthens Candidacy

• Proven experience architecting and managing solutions in multi-cloud or hybrid environments, ensuring interoperability and performance at scale.
• Demonstrated success leading legacy system modernization programs and executing complex cloud migration strategies.
• Proven ability to design and implement compliant data architectures for regulated industries, ensuring security and governance standards.
• Extensive experience mentoring and developing architects and engineering teams to elevate architectural maturity and best practices across the organization.
• Experience delivering data architecture solutions in automotive or manufacturing domains, with an understanding of industry-specific data challenges.

Job Purpose

• Provide strategic advisory and governance for enterprise data initiatives by developing and enforcing architecture standards, patterns, and best practices aligned with organizational objectives.
• Participate in the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to review and approve data architecture designs across platforms and business domains.
• Evaluate end-to-end data lifecycle architectures-including ingestion, storage, processing, modeling, and consumption-for scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Identify architectural risks, gaps, and technical debt, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Guide technology selection and trade-off decisions to ensure optimal solutions for business needs.
• Mentor engineering and analytics teams to improve architectural maturity and quality.
• Support solution decisions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid ecosystems, ensuring interoperability and compliance.
• Deliver measurable outcomes, such as:
• Consistent delivery of high-quality, enterprise-grade data architectures.
• Reduction of risk and technical debt through effective governance and oversight.
• Enhanced compliance and security alignment across all data solutions.
• Accelerated delivery enabled by standardized patterns and clear architectural guidelines.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.
BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 248922 when responding to this ad.

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