Senior Data Architect

Johnson Brothers • Saint Paul, MN

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About The Position

Johnson Brothers is seeking a Senior Data Architect to help shape the future of data and analytics within the organization. This role involves establishing architectural principles, standards, patterns, and governance for data management and usage. The architect will define current, transition, and future-state architectures, guiding the evolution from Azure Data Lake and Synapse to Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, while integrating new platforms like Dynamics 365 F&O and Dataverse. This is a hands-on role focused on building and implementing solutions, translating architectural direction into practical guidance for engineering teams.

Requirements

• Demonstrated progression from hands-on solution development and implementation into architecture and technical leadership.
• Strong experience designing enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, or similar large-scale data solutions.
• Deep understanding of data architecture and modeling, including dimensional, relational, and enterprise/domain-oriented approaches.
• Strong architecture experience within the Microsoft and Azure data ecosystem.
• Experience translating business needs into information, application, and technology architectures.
• Ability to define practical current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures.
• Working knowledge of modern integration architecture, APIs, pipelines, orchestration, and system-to-system data movement.
• Understanding of enterprise data management disciplines including governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, master data, and reference data.
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment, including balancing scalability, security, performance, maintainability, cost, and delivery realities.
• Ability to influence technical decisions, mentor experienced engineers, and build consensus across teams.
• Ability to communicate architecture effectively with audiences ranging from engineers to Directors and VPs.
• Comfort operating in an environment where both the architecture practice and technology landscape are evolving.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Fabric Data Warehouse, or Lakehouse.
• Dynamics 365 F&O and Dataverse architecture.
• MDM or Data Quality platform implementation.
• Metadata, catalog, lineage, or data governance technologies.
• Enterprise integration or EDI/B2B architecture.
• End-to-end analytics architecture, including semantic and Power BI consumption layers.
• Architecture or data-management frameworks such as TOGAF or DMBOK.
• Cloud cost optimization or FinOps practices.
• Technology/vendor evaluation and selection.
• Technical team or formal people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature EIM architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and lightweight governance.
• Develop and maintain meaningful current-state, transition-state, and future-state architecture.
• Create a practical architecture library covering key standards, patterns, decisions, and reference architectures.
• Provide architectural direction as the data ecosystem evolves from Azure Data Lake and Synapse toward Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Fabric Data Warehouse.
• Help define how Dynamics 365 F&O, Dataverse, Fabric, enterprise applications, integrations, and analytical platforms work together.
• Guide architecture across data ingestion, storage, transformation, modeling, analytics, metadata, lineage, cataloging, and governance.
• Provide architectural guidance for developing Master Data Management and Data Quality capabilities, including technology evaluation and implementation.
• Establish and promote data modeling standards and reusable patterns.
• Partner with Data Engineers and other technology teams to translate architecture into implementable designs, review significant solutions, and resolve difficult technical problems.
• Mentor experienced engineers and help strengthen architectural and engineering practices across the team.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, encourage reuse, and reduce unnecessary complexity and technical debt.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings and flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) with an employer match
• Short-term disability coverage
• Company-paid long-term disability insurance
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plans
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed