Sr. Data Architect

Job Summary

This role is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving the enterprise data architecture to support business strategy, analytics, and operational needs. This role serves as a technical authority and strategic advisor, defining data models, integration patterns, and architecture standards while ensuring alignment with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements. This position partners closely with engineering, analytics, business, and governance teams to ensure data solutions are scalable, reliable, and fit for purpose.

Essential Functions

• Develop and own the OPI data architecture strategy and roadmap.

• Define and enforce organization-wide data architecture principles, frameworks, and standards.

• Oversee the design of data platforms supporting advanced analytics, AI/ML, and cloud adoption. • Collaborate with data governance and stewardship teams to ensure architectures support data ownership, quality, lineage, and metadata management.

• Evaluate and select data technologies and platforms for strategic initiatives, recommending architecture approaches that balance innovation and risk.

• Lead large-scale data integration, modernization, and migration projects.

• Ensure data architecture aligns with enterprise architecture and business strategy.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data architects, engineers, and analysts. • Partner with executives and business leaders to shape data-driven transformation initiatives. • Review and approve data-related solution designs, providing architectural oversight and recommendations. • Partner with analytics, AI/ML, and reporting teams to ensure data architectures enable advanced insights and performance. • Perform other duties as assigned.