
Data Architect
MSB Consulting - Medicaid to Schools
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $112,000 - $125,000 per year
About the role
- Define and maintain enterprise-wide logical and physical data models
- Establish and enforce scalable data standards and governance policies
- Ensure our data platform is reliable, high-performing, and built for growth
- Align data architecture with long-term business and product strategy
- Design and refine conceptual, logical, and physical data models
- Optimize database schemas for performance, maintainability, and scalability
- Lead strategic database refactoring and modernization initiatives
- Architect secure, cloud-native data solutions, with a strong emphasis on Azure
- Design high-availability, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies
- Guide the evolution of our modern data ecosystem
- Design and oversee resilient ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion and transformation
- Establish standards for API integrations and data exchange
- Ensure reliable capture, processing, and distribution of enterprise data
- Implement comprehensive data governance frameworks
- Define and enforce role-based access controls and data security standards
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FERPA, and SOC 2
- Establish audit logging and traceability practices to protect data integrity
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to support new feature development
- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction to data engineers and developers
- Conduct architecture reviews and approve data design specifications
- Mentor team members on best practices in data architecture and governance
Requirements
- Minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience in data architecture or data engineering
- Deep expertise in relational database systems (e.g., SQL Server)
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-level data models
- Hands-on experience architecting solutions in major cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred)
- Experience designing complex ETL/ELT processes
- Working knowledge of formal data governance frameworks
- Experience supporting regulatory compliance environments (HIPAA, FERPA, SOC 2 or similar)
Benefits
- MSB School Services covers 100% of the premium for two employee-only medical plan options
- 100% of employee-only dental and vision coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Telemedicine
- 10+ paid holidays per year
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Life & Disability insurance
- 401K, 3% Employer Match
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Hard Skills & Tools
data modelingETLELTdatabase optimizationdata governancecloud architectureAPI integrationdata securityrelational database systemsdisaster recovery
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationstrategic planning