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Position: Data Architect

Duration: 12 months to start, project up to 2 years

Work Location: Austin, TX

Hybrid: M & F remote, Tuesday-Thursday onsite

Pay: $85-90/HR

This position is eligible to enroll in medical, dental, vision after 60 days. In addition, this position is eligible to enroll in a 401(k) after 90 days.

We’re hiring a hands-on Data Architect to lead the data strategy, architecture, and migration for a large-scale ERP transformation. This role is critical to successfully transitioning from our on-premise ERP to a new SaaS-based ERP platform, ensuring data integrity, governance, and long-term scalability. You’ll operate at the intersection of business, technology, and institutional data—designing a future-state architecture while guiding complex data conversion and integration efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Data Strategy & Architecture

· Define and own the enterprise data architecture aligned to SaaS-based ERP capabilities and constraints

· Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models across student, finance, HR, and advancement domains

· Establish data standards, naming conventions, and architecture principles for the program

· Document user stories, journeys, process models, and create data models to support them.

· Ensuring data architecture supports strategic initiatives, such as accelerating AI readiness or improving operational efficiency

Data Migration & Conversion

· Lead end-to-end migration strategy from on-prem ERP to SaaS-based ERP, including:

o Data profiling, cleansing, and enrichment

o Data mapping and transformation rules

o Migration waves and cutover planning

· Oversee validation, reconciliation, and audit processes to ensure accuracy and completeness

· Establishing standards for data security, data lineage, and data management to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Data Governance & Quality

· Define and document data governance framework (ownership, stewardship, controls, roles)

· Define and monitor data quality KPIs and remediation processes

· Partner with functional leaders to align on data definitions and business rules

· Define and establish data lifecycles

· Define and establish archival and accessibility of cold data.

· Establish data management and access roles

Integrations & Ecosystem

· Architect integrations between SaaS-based ERP and other enterprise systems (CRM, LMS, reporting, identity management, etc.)

· Define API, middleware, and data flow patterns with the data integration team.

· Ensure scalability, security, and performance across the data ecosystem

Analytics & Reporting Enablement

· Design data structures to support reporting, analytics, AI and regulatory/compliance needs

· Partner with BI teams to enable modern reporting platforms and data access strategies

· Create subject area data models and catalogs

Leadership & Delivery

· Serve as the data authority within the program, advising executive stakeholders and workstream leads

· Collaborate closely with PMO, functional SMEs, and system integrators

· This strategic role aligns data technology with business goals to enable analytics, AI, and regulatory compliance.

· Mentor data engineers, analysts, and data stewards

Required Qualifications

· 7–12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data roles

· Hands-on experience leading full-cycle ERP data migrations

· Demonstrated expertise in:

o Data modeling (conceptual/logical/physical)

o ETL/ELT processes and tools

o Data governance frameworks

o SQL, data warehousing, and cloud data platforms

· Experience with integration patterns (APIs, middleware, event-based architecture)

· Experience creating Self-Service Reporting and Analytics environments.

· Experience standing up data quality strategies

· Problem-solving and decision-making skills

· Strong communication and leadership skills to align teams on standards

· Expert-level skills in creating conceptual, logical, and physical data models (star/snowflake schemas).

· Prior consulting or large-scale transformation program experience

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience in SaaS transformation

· Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

· Experience shifting to “Data as a Strategic Asset” approach.

· Knowledge of compliance and regulatory reporting in higher ed (IPEDS, FERPA, etc.)