Data Architect

Data ArchitectLocation: Irving TX (Onsite)Contract Key Responsibilities:Engage with business, product, operations, fraud, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.Translate high-level business objectives into detailed requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data mappings, and solution documentation.Perform data profiling, gap analysis, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation analysis, and validation of business rules across upstream and downstream systems.Support reconciliation, fraud management, data quality, regulatory reporting, and operational control use cases by identifying data issues, breaks, trends, and root causes.Collaborate with architects, data engineers, developers, QA, and delivery teams to ensure requirements are feasible, traceable, testable, and aligned with target-state architecture.Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.Support SIT, UAT, defect triage, business validation, production readiness, and post-implementation monitoring.Prepare executive-ready status updates, RAID logs, action trackers, requirement traceability matrices, and decision logs for governance forums.