Data Architect III

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Data Architect III serves as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit. A Data Architect III exhibits strong influential skills to represent the data practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in data architecture processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Data Architect III include:

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  Leads strategic and critical data analysis, summarizing findings to provide program recommendations

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  Owns overall data strategy and oversees data collection, organization, and storage for program(s)

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  Identifies business components and translates requirements into functional BI portals and dashboards

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  Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions

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  Responsible for data governance, eliminating gaps and improving data maturity

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  Aligns data architecture and standardizes access patterns to make data available to BI tools, apps, and websites

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  Oversees and aligns data organization, dictionary standardization, and glossary development with models

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  Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders

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  Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications

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  Serves as a mentor for data analysts, scientists, and architects

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  Supports data team members with shipping features, providing direction and guidance

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  Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, evaluates homework assignments

• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• 2+ years of experience in a data architect or similar role

• Experience with modern data architecture practices and emerging technologies in streaming, large-scale data processing, databases, ML, applied statistics, and visualization technologies

• Experience with Kafka, APIs, Oracle

• Strong background in data pipelines/ELT

• Experience solving complex business problems and understanding of the data architecture supporting them