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# Data Quality Architect

- **Company:** Software Technology, Inc.
- **Location:** Greensboro, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Migration, SQL Databases, Strategies of Testing, Data Lakes, Collibra, Databricks
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2f002f9a-2485-4776-bf5d-a7c6936457e1

## About the Role

* 10+ years in data quality, data engineering or data platform architecture, including experience leading a migration to a client-facing gate.
 * Hands-on Databricks - Unity Catalog, Delta Lake and Workflows - sufficient to review generated code and challenge design decisions credibly.
 * Working knowledge of Collibra DQ or an equivalent enterprise DQ platform such as Informatica DQ, Ataccama, Soda or Monte Carlo.
 * Proven ownership of a decommission programme where the legacy system could not be switched off without documented evidence.
 * Able to hold a client conversation in which the honest answer is "not yet", and keep both the schedule and the relationship intact.

Preferred:

 * Retail, apparel or CPG data domain exposure.
 * Experience defining test strategy for a data migration, even where not personally executing it.

## Description

* Own delivery of the migration end to end, from framework design through to Collibra DQ decommission.
 * Make and defend the native-monitoring versus generated-SQL routing decision with client, and revise it as pilot evidence lands.
 * Own the pilot gate go/no-go - scale does not begin until every exit criterion is demonstrably met, including measured effort per dataset.
 * Chair the weekly working gate with client's DQ lead, and report progress, risk and defect trend to programme sponsors.
 * Direct alias-to-table mapping, retirement validation of candidate jobs, and scope adjudication with the client DQ team.
 * Own the parity sign-off process so that no dataset is cut over without written steward approval.


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