The Opportunity
The Data Architect defines and advances the organization’s enterprise data architecture, so data is structured, integrated, accessible, secure, scalable, and aligned with business, data governance, and technology strategies. This role is intended to turn Ulteig’s data strategy into executable architecture by connecting enterprise business priorities, governed data domains, Microsoft Fabric platform patterns, and practical delivery standards. The Data Architect should serve as the technical bridge between business requirements, data governance decisions, and implementation teams, ensuring that platform design, data models, lineage, semantic layers, and integration patterns support phased modernization.
The Data Architect partners closely with the Enterprise Data Leader, Data Governance Lead, Data Analysts, Business Data Owners, Data Stewards, Enterprise Architecture, digital and technology teams, and business leaders to translate business and governance requirements into sustainable technical solutions and enterprise standards.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the phased technical implementation of Microsoft Fabric at Ulteig, designing for enterprise use while implementing for incremental value.
- Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, target-state data ecosystem, reference architectures, and roadmap – with an eye toward current reporting and analytic rewrites, future business requirements, self-service enablement, and scaled AI enablement
- Establish architectural principles, standards, and reusable patterns for how enterprise data is structured, stored, integrated, accessed, secured, and managed. Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models, including relationships across business data domains, systems, applications, and data platforms.
- Ensure data architecture supports business strategy, enterprise processes, analytics, reporting, governance requirements, and future scalability.
- Evaluate architectural impacts of new systems, integrations, major initiatives, and changes to data structures or platforms.
- Define technical data standards for naming conventions, data types, keys, relationships, structures, and other architectural components.
- Provide architectural leadership for Microsoft Fabric, including ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic models, analytical workloads, and integration with enterprise business systems.
- Partner with Data Engineering and IT to ensure data platform architecture is scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Define the technical approach for enterprise data lineage, traceability, and impact analysis from source systems through reporting and analytical outputs.
- Translate governance policies, business definitions, ownership expectations, classification standards, lineage requirements, and data quality needs into technical requirements and architecture patterns.
- Define architectural requirements and integration patterns that support metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, classification, and governance capabilities within Microsoft Purview.
- Provide technical expertise to the Data Governance Council and help identify technical constraints, opportunities, and dependencies associated with governance decisions.
- Collaborate with business leaders, Business Data Owners, Data Stewards, analysts, developers, engineers, integration teams, and technology leaders.
What We Expect from You
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience designing enterprise data architectures, data models, integration patterns, and cloud data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of relational and analytical modeling, APIs, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, metadata, lineage, cataloging, and data governance concepts.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric -- not just Microsoft SQL Server or Azure data services, Microsoft Purview, required.
- Experience designing in modern medallion architecture, particularly in Fabric, required.
- Experience with D365 Finance & Operations, CRM, Planview, ERP, project management, finance, or other complex enterprise business systems preferred.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architecture.
- Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement.
- Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S.
Required Attributes:
- Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic team environment. This position requires a teach, lead, and do mentality.
- Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and communication skills to explain findings to non-technical stakeholders.
- Innovation: Strong drive to explore, test, and learn from new solutions, viewing failure as a valuable step toward identifying high‑impact opportunities for Ulteig
- Communication: Strong problem-solving aptitude with the ability to communicate computational design opportunities and a value to team members and ensure alignment to project/client goals. Excellent collaboration skills.
- Time Management: Responsible for completing tasks in allotted time.
- Complexity: Proven ability to manage and deliver complex automation scripts and integrated solutions with minimal supervision.
- Influence: Ability to drive architectural standards and enterprise consistency through influence rather than direct authority.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to understand complex relationships across business processes, systems, data domains, and enterprise architecture.
- Leadership: Ability to mentor engineers, analysts, and technical teams while promoting architecture standards and best practices.
As you consider applying for a position at Ulteig, we encourage you to think outside the box – because we do! You might not meet 100% of the skills listed in a description, but we are committed to hiring people with exceptional talent, ability and potential, and then creating an environment where they can become the best versions of themselves. We don’t want to miss out on the possibility of speaking with the next outstanding Ulteig team members, so please apply if you think this role is a great match for your unique skills and strengths. And, yes, relevant military experience is absolutely considered for transitioning service members.
What You Can Expect from Ulteig
Ulteig is a purpose-driven organization that has built a culture focused on people, both our clients and our employees, for over 80 years. Working at Ulteig is more than a job, opening opportunities to make an impact by creating and solving for a sustainable future. We recognize our success relies heavily on the dedication and focus of our workforce; this is why we make investing in our employees a top priority. We prioritize flexibility and staying connected to meeting your needs and help you achieve your goals. We value your unique perspective, respect your individuality, and celebrate your contributions. At Ulteig, we take our success and the success of our clients personally.
We offer our team members:
- Flexible Workplace
- Employee Ownership
- Competitive Pay
- Comprehensive Benefits Package
- Collaborative Environment
- Innovative Culture
Our vision is to be the most trusted partners transforming our world’s critical infrastructure. Ulteig connects people and resources to develop compelling, integrated solutions across multiple Lifeline Sectors®, including Power, Renewables, Transportation and Water. Ulteig is a trusted partner in engineering North America’s essential infrastructure and leverages its expertise with a wide range of public and private clients.
At Ulteig, we care deeply about our team, listening to their needs and ensuring they have the tools necessary to be productive, whether they choose to work remotely, hybrid, or in the office. Regardless of where you work, you are empowered to build a workday that best suits your strengths. We strive to ensure a balance and separation between home and work life. We support a flexible working schedule, so employees are able to focus on what's important to them.
If you would like to be a part of a company that empowers their employees, apply today!
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Additional Opportunity Details:
Target Base Compensation Range for this role is $126,400 - $164,300
- Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your job specific skills, education, training, job location, number of years of experience related to this role and comparison to other employees already in this role.
This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 60 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.
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