IT Data Architect

Metropolitan Airports Commission • Minneapolis, MN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The IT Data Architect is a hands-on senior individual contributor who owns and evolves the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s established Azure data platform and designs new data solutions built on it. The role helps shape architecture standards, governance, and the platform roadmap, supporting airport operations and decision-making at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport and the MAC’s reliever airports.

The architect contributes to data and analytics strategy, principles, policies, and roadmaps; leads technical designs aligned with enterprise standards; and provides expertise in data storage, quality, modeling, integrations, classification, reporting, and analytics. The role works with departments across the organization to understand requirements and turn business challenges and opportunities into scalable, supportable solutions. It also creates and maintains architecture and design artifacts and evaluates emerging technologies for potential use at the MAC.

The position reports to the IT Manager, Data Practices. It works with MAC staff at all levels and across departments, and may have external business contact with tenants, vendors, contractors, consultants, and IT vendors. The position offers on-site and remote work under a policy requiring employees to be on-site three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a technology-related field, or 10 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 8 years of experience with the design and development of data storage, data modeling, quality assurance, ETL, and analytics/business intelligence capabilities.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills and an enterprise mindset.
• Proven record of delivering data, reporting, or analytics solutions within agreed-upon timeframes.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, including written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience eliciting and translating business pain points into tangible KPIs and associated business intelligence solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and adhering to enterprise data governance processes.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage.
• Experience working with the Microsoft Power Platform, including Logic Apps, Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives or tasks at the same time.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with metadata tools or solutions.
• Experience in data and infrastructure security techniques.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse.
• Strong SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategy, principles, policies, and roadmaps for the Data and Analytics discipline.
• Lead technical designs of data solutions that align with enterprise standards.
• Provide technical support and expertise for data storage, data quality enablement, data modeling and integrations, data classification, and reporting and analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, business analysts, and project managers to understand data, reporting, and analytics requirements.
• Partner with diverse business stakeholders to extract value from data streams.
• Translate enterprise challenges and opportunities into scalable, supportable technical solutions that can be leveraged across the organization.
• Create and maintain architecture and design artifacts for end-to-end Data Architecture solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and their potential application at the MAC.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior