Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect (Hybrid Onsite)Location: Burbank, CADuration: 6 Months+Interview Type: Virtual / In-PersonNote: This is a local role requiring the resource to be at the client location, with onsite presence expected 3 days per week.Job Description:Position Summary: The Senior Data Architect will lead large-scale data architecture, data modeling, data engineering, and migration initiatives, with strong preference for experience in Pension/Retirement, Financial Services, Insurance, or Healthcare environments. This role requires deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, legacy-to-modern platform migration, SQL, relational databases, data quality, remediation, reconciliation, and stakeholder management.Key Responsibilities:Lead enterprise data architecture and design across conceptual, logical, and physical data models.Drive complex legacy-to-modern platform migrations involving multiple source systems, dependencies, sequencing, and cutover strategy.Perform source data analysis, profiling, dependency analysis, source-to-target mapping, transformation rules, ETL architecture, data lineage, and migration design.Translate business rules into technical transformation logic and scalable data solutions.Oversee data quality, remediation, cleansing, reconciliation, and validation of records, balances, relationships, and business attributes.Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Architects, SMEs, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, ETL Developers, and QA teams.Provide oversight to offshore teams and support backlog refinement, walkthroughs, and implementation activities.Recognize and address source data issues as a critical part of successful migration.Required Qualifications:15+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, and large-scale data migration.Strong expertise in SQL and relational databases.Strong experience with data quality, remediation, cleansing, reconciliation, and validation.Ability to convert complex business requirements into technical solutions.Excellent architecture and stakeholder management skills.Experience managing distributed or offshore delivery teams.Preferred Domain Experience:Experience in pension or retirement-related data domains is highly desirable, including participants, beneficiaries, employment, earnings, pension credits, benefits, payments, and related-party relationships.Deliverables:Process flows.Mentor and provide knowledge transfer to client project team members.Participate as a primary, co-, or contributing author on project deliverables.Participate in data conversion and data maintenance.Provide best practices and industry-specific solutions.Advise on alternative and out-of-the-box solutions.Provide thought leadership and hands-on technical configuration/development as needed.Participate as a functional team member.Perform other duties as assigned.Qualifying Questions:Do you have all of the preferred skills? Answer must be Yes to qualify.Are you okay going into the office at least 3 days a week? Answer must be Yes to qualify.Top Skills & Years of Experience:1. 15+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, and large-scale data migration, preferably within Pension/Retirement, Financial Services, Insurance, or Healthcare - Expert2. Data remediation, and data migration activities - ExpertRecruiter Details:Contact: Sameer - View email address on click.appcast.io.