Data Architect Role

The work

Data Architects shape how an organization represents, connects, governs, and uses data across systems. They translate business processes, information needs, and technical constraints into conceptual, logical, and physical models that teams can implement and evolve.

The work spans relational databases, analytical platforms, data lakes, warehouses, and other fit-for-purpose stores. You assess a fragmented current state, define a target architecture, establish integration and access patterns, and decide where standardization matters most. Good decisions account for data shape, access patterns, scale, consistency, security, resilience, cost, and the realities of migration.

This is a design and decision role. Data Architects work closely with data engineers, database developers, database administrators, security teams, software engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. They make tradeoffs visible, preserve traceability from requirements to implementation, and help teams change an estate without losing integrity or control.

What you'll build

·        Conceptual, logical, and physical data models for operational and analytical systems.

·        Target-state architectures for warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, relational databases, and specialized stores.

·        Canonical models, integratio