Solutions Architect - Data Governance

Role Description

The Solutions Architect, Data Governance serves as the lead technical and strategic advisor for enterprise data governance initiatives within client engagements. This role works directly with executive stakeholders, data leaders, business teams, security organizations, and technical delivery teams to design and implement governance programs that establish trust, visibility, accountability, and control across enterprise data estates.

This client-facing delivery role focuses on structured data governance, including:

• Metadata management
• Business glossary development
• Taxonomy design
• Data lineage
• Stewardship operating models
• Data quality frameworks
• Governance monitoring
• Microsoft Purview implementation

The Solutions Architect defines governance strategy, designs governance architectures, leads customer engagements, and provides oversight throughout delivery of the governance workstream. This role also advises organizations on governance readiness for modern analytics and AI platforms, including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Services, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of experience delivering enterprise data, information management, or data governance solutions, with substantial recent focus on governance.
• Hands-on implementation experience with Microsoft Purview, including Unified Catalog, Data Map, Data Estate Insights, business glossary, metadata management, and data lineage.
• Demonstrated experience establishing data stewardship programs, including executive sponsorship, ownership structures, accountability frameworks, and adoption strategies.
• Demonstrated experience leading customer-facing consulting engagements, executive workshops, governance assessments, and strategic advisory initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Azure.
• Experience with data engineering and data visualization architectures and their relationship to governance.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and governance reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Requirements

• Ability to travel to SHI, partner, and customer locations as needed.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with sales, delivery, engineering, and leadership stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous learning across data governance, analytics, and AI platforms.
• Strong ethical standards with disciplined adherence to data privacy, governance, compliance, and security requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental
• 401K
• Flexible spending

Company Description

Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $16 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.

Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI’s concierge approach to help them solve what’s next. But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees – all 7,000 of them. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy:

• Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.
• Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
• Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.
• World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours.