Data Architect

Job Title: Data Architect – Enterprise Modernization / IV&V Engagement: 12 month + potential ext Overview: We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to support our customer. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior data professional with experience supporting large-scale enterprise modernization, legacy-system replacement, data migration, data integration, and highly regulated information environments. The Data Architect will serve as a senior technical subject-matter expert supporting Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) activities. This role is focused on independently assessing architecture, data migration, quality, integrations, testing, security, and modernization readiness—not owning day-to-day application development. What You'll Be Doing Review current-state and proposed enterprise data architectures, database designs, schemas, and data models. Evaluate conceptual, logical, and physical data models and ensure architectural consistency across the solution. Assess data migration and conversion strategies, including source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, sequencing, reconciliation, and cutover readiness. Evaluate data profiling, cleansing, deduplication, completeness, accuracy, and data-quality controls. Identify risks involving historical data, referential integrity, duplicate identities, incompatible data formats, downstream dependencies, and potential data loss. Review ETL/ELT processes, APIs, system interfaces, messaging, XML/data-exchange structures, and batch/real-time integrations. Assess interoperability and data exchanges between AIMS, other FDLE systems, and external criminal-justice partners. Review functional and non-functional data requirements and verify requirements traceability through architecture, development, testing, and implementation. Evaluate system integration testing, interface testing, test data, test coverage, acceptance criteria, and cutover readiness. Review data governance, metadata, lineage, access controls, auditability, retention, configuration management, and change-control practices. Evaluate backup/recovery, high availability, operational readiness, and disaster-recovery considerations. Identify architecture and data risks and provide clear, actionable remediation recommendations. Contribute to IV&V assessments, periodic review reports, risk findings, executive briefings, and project-status reviews. Work with technical teams, project leadership, business stakeholders, and oversight organizations while maintaining the independence required of an IV&V function. Required Experience We're looking for candidates with strong experience in: Conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling Relational database architecture and advanced SQL Source-to-target mapping and transformation ETL / ELT and enterprise data integration Data profiling, cleansing, reconciliation, and data-quality management APIs, interfaces, messaging, and multi-system integrations Data governance, metadata, lineage, and auditability Requirements management and traceability SDLC, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and implementation readiness Legacy-system modernization Technical architecture reviews and risk assessments Executive-level technical documentation and stakeholder communication Preferred Technology Experience Candidates with experience in the following environments will be especially attractive: Oracle Database and/or Microsoft SQL Server ETL/ELT and enterprise integration technologies API and messaging architectures Modern Azure data integration, analytics, warehouse/lake, or governance technologies SharePoint, Visio, Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Highly Desirable Previous U.S. federal, state, or local government IT modernization experience Florida public-sector technology experience Law-enforcement, public-safety, courts, corrections, or justice-information systems Records-management, case-management, investigative, or criminal-history systems NIEM, XML, IEPD, or Interface Control Document (ICD) experience Project assurance, technology assessment, IT governance, or architecture-review experience Florida DMS Rule 60GG-1 / Category 4 project oversight knowledge Experience with high-volume, mission-critical transactional systems High availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, data retention, and auditing #J-18808-Ljbffr