IT Solutions Architect Director

IT Solutions Architect Director

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive compensation and benefit package: Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance Health Savings Account 401(k) with company match Paid time off Tuition Assistance Employee Referral Bonus And more!

Balfour Beatty is seeking an IT Solutions Architect Director to join our team in Dallas, TX. This individual will oversee data integrations and business intelligence and be responsible for leading the strategy, architecture, delivery, and support of the organization's enterprise data integration, reporting, and analytics capabilities. In a lean-team environment, this role serves as both a strategic leader and a hands-on technical contributor, providing direction across the function while also remaining actively involved in solution design, development oversight, troubleshooting, optimization, and platform modernization.

This role is ideal for a player-coach who is comfortable operating across leadership, architecture, and execution. The Director will establish priorities, guide standards, partner with business and IT stakeholders, and develop team capability while also contributing directly to high-impact initiatives, technical problem solving, and critical production support. The role will help shape the future-state analytics platform, including the organization's planned transition toward Microsoft Fabric, while ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of the current hybrid environment.

Essential Functions

• Lead the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational support of enterprise data integration, data warehousing, reporting, and analytics solutions.
• Define and maintain the roadmap for integrations, data pipelines, data warehousing, reporting, and analytics platforms, balancing immediate business needs with long-term modernization goals.
• Serve as the senior technical leader for the organization's data and integration ecosystem, providing hands-on involvement in architecture, design reviews, solution development, troubleshooting, and issue resolution as needed.
• Design, oversee, and when appropriate directly support the development of integrations and automated workflows using platforms such as Workato, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS Glue, SQL Server, SSIS, Amazon Redshift, and Power BI.
• Guide the design and optimization of ETL/ELT pipelines, data transformations, orchestration processes, and reporting environments to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Partner with business leaders, functional teams, and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize work, and deliver practical, scalable data and analytics solutions.
• Establish and enforce standards for data architecture, integration design, data quality, governance, security, documentation, and operational support.
• Lead the design and delivery of dashboards, reports, semantic models, and self-service analytics capabilities that support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve interoperability, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and increase trust in enterprise data.
• Lead modernization efforts across the data and analytics ecosystem, including evaluation, planning, and migration readiness for Microsoft Fabric.
• Provide leadership for production support of integrations, data pipelines, and BI/reporting solutions, including incident response, escalation management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor, coach, and develop team members while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and solution-oriented culture.
• Manage external vendors, consultants, and implementation partners as needed.
• Support resource planning, prioritization, and execution across a small team with a focus on delivering high-value outcomes efficiently.

Working Conditions

The majority of work is completed in a hybrid office setting with intermittent sitting, standing and walking. Periodic travel required.

Education, Experience, and Knowledge

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in data integration, data engineering, business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or related technical roles.

Minimum of 3 years of experience leading technical teams, enterprise data initiatives, or major cross-functional technology efforts.

Demonstrated experience operating in a hands-on leadership capacity within a lean team or similarly resource-constrained environment.

Demonstrated experience designing, developing, supporting, and modernizing enterprise data and integration solutions.

Required Technical Skills

• Workato
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Step Functions
• AWS Glue
• Amazon Redshift
• Microsoft SQL Server
• SSIS
• Power BI

Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational database design, development, and performance tuning.

Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, workflow orchestration, API integrations, and automated data workflows.

Experience developing data models, dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions for business users and leadership teams.

Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, integration patterns, hybrid/cloud-based data platforms, and operational support considerations.

Ability to move between strategic planning and direct technical contribution depending on team capacity and business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and analytics platform migration planning.
• Experience working in hybrid environments that include both legacy Microsoft-based platforms and modern cloud services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, source control, release management, and deployment practices for data and integration solutions.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, metadata, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting executive dashboards, KPI reporting, and self-service BI programs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong leadership and team development skills.
• Ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on technical execution.
• Strong architectural thinking and practical problem-solving ability.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, lean-team environment.
• Strong commitment to operational excellence, data integrity, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position will directly supervise technical staff, contractors, and consultants and is responsible for assigning work, setting priorities, mentoring team members, supporting professional development, and contributing to performance management activities.

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to ensuring the organization has reliable integrations, trusted data, and meaningful insights to support day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. In a lean-team environment, the IT Solutions Architect Director plays a central role in both leading the function and helping deliver the work, providing the technical judgment, organizational leadership, and hands-on support needed to strengthen and modernize the company's data and analytics capabilities.

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.