Data Architect

Overview

Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking a Data Architect to provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, evaluation, and governance of enterprise technology capabilities. This role translates business objectives into scalable, secure, reliable, and sustainable architectures while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, standards, and roadmaps. This role can be located near any Gilbane office or remote.

Who are we?   

As a Top-10 ENR Contractor, Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more!  

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.  

Who are you?  

You are someone who acts inclusively, showing empathy and treating others with respect and dignity in order to uphold Gilbane’s core value of Caring and “People First” workplace culture. You seek to listen in order to understand and can convey information clearly. You’re a strong problem solver who can identify, prioritize, and implement alternatives for solutions, and you demonstrate adaptability by collaborating with others and supporting team members to achieve excellence. A self-starter who shows passion, commitment, and ownership all while delivering on business outcomes and driving results. You’re someone who identifies opportunities for new and improved ways of doing things that result in value-add solutions.   

Your core values match Gilbane’s: Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Toughmindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship.  

What’s in it for you?   

Gilbane offers employees multi-dimensional training opportunities through a number of resources. While managing your responsibilities to projects, you will be able to enroll in trainings through our award-winning Gilbane University to build leadership and technical skills. In addition, you would work with an experienced team which provides you with the opportunity to learn new industry skills every day. You will protect and promote the interests of both Gilbane and the client in all matters as well as demonstrating the personal characteristics of a developing leader. 

Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical guidance for assigned domains
• Leads architecture and high-level design activities for strategic business and technology initiatives
• Translates business capabilities, requirements, and constraints into practical architectures
• Ensures architectures address key attributes such as scalability, security, reliability, interoperability, performance, maintainability, and supportability
• Supports enterprise strategies and roadmaps by developing current-state, target-state, and transition architectures
• Identifies relevant dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities across technology domains
• Participates in architecture reviews, governance processes, portfolio planning, and the development of technology roadmaps
• Provides architecture guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle to maintain alignment with approved designs and enterprise standards
• Partners with business and technology stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational needs, and technology requirements; aligns architecture decisions with business priorities, enterprise capabilities, and long-term technology strategies
• Communicates critical decision points such as options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences; facilitates collaboration across business teams, product teams, delivery teams, security, operations, and vendors
• Services as a trusted advisor for technology strategy solution design, and architectural decision-making
• Promotes consistency and reuse across Business Units, applications, and technology initiatives
• Coaches and mentors less experienced team members
• Supports a positive and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; advanced degree preferred but not required
• ?5+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or related technical leadership roles
• Certification or familiarity with architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or Zachman preferred
• Relevant architecture, cloud, application, data, or technology certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), or comparable certification preferred
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across applications, data platforms, integrations, analytics, and cloud services
• Experience evaluating packaged applications, cloud services, platform capabilities, and custom-development approaches to determine appropriate technology solutions
• Strong knowledge of enterprise and data architecture, including data modeling, governance, information management, APIs, integration patterns, ETL/ELT, data lineage, access controls, and security principles
• Understanding of application architecture principles, including service boundaries, scalability, resiliency, observability, interoperability, and lifecycle management
• Ability to define architecture patterns and standards for APIs, events, messaging, data exchange, workflow orchestration, and system integration
• Ability to translate business requirements and long-term objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions
• Ability to architect solutions that balance governance, security, compliance, and data controls with innovation and agility
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, with the ability to identify root causes and build alignment across business, technology, and cross-functional teams
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities for their potential to improve business outcomes, delivery effectiveness, and technology sustainability

Salary to be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience of the applicant, as well as the internal equity and alignment with the team.

The pay ranges from $110,000-$155,000.00 plus benefits and retirement program.

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees’ education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Click here to view the physical demands and working conditions required to perform this role. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

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