Data Architect Senior

Data Architect Senior We are seeking a Data Architect Senior to support a public sector environmental regulatory modernization initiative. This role will design and lead data integration between a regulatory system, a Databricks-based data management platform, and a geospatial platform. The focus is establishing trusted, timely, and reusable data for regulators, decision-makers, and the public. The ideal candidate will set the direction for how regulatory, environmental, and spatial data moves, connects, and is governed across these systems, working within a high-performing, multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced, agile environment. This position requires someone who can design enterprise data architectures and lead complex system integrations to support a regulatory program. The role encompasses defining target-state data architecture across multiple platforms, designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for regulatory and geospatial domains, and establishing integration patterns suited to each use case. Responsibilities include architecting lakehouse structures on Databricks with medallion layers and Delta Lake tables, designing spatial data flows that preserve geometry and coordinate reference systems, leading data pipeline design with data engineers and developers, defining data contracts and API specifications, resolving complex integration issues, embedding data governance practices including metadata management and lineage, ensuring compliance with government information security and privacy standards, defining data quality rules and monitoring approaches, applying role-based access controls, serving as a trusted advisor to program leadership and technical teams, coordinating with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity teams, producing architecture documentation and decision records, and mentoring team members on data architecture best practices. This role will participate in agile ceremonies and turn architecture into actionable user stories. Qualifications