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# Data Architect / Data Governance

- **Company:** Agile Brains Consulting Inc
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Information Model, Metadata Standards, Role-Based Access Control, Data Classification, Microsoft Fabric, Operational Systems
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/acbf7f92-6787-49b5-a863-159b0d10f99b

## About the Role

* Enterprise data architecture experience, including reference architecture and integration pattern design.
 * Microsoft Fabric or comparable modern lakehouse platform design experience.
 * Practical data governance implementation - access models, classification, cataloging, stewardship
(Microsoft Purview or equivalent).

 * Requirements gathering and stakeholder facilitation with both business and technical groups.
 * Strong written communication; able to produce documentation an executive audience can read.

Preferred

 * AMI, SCADA, or other OT data experience in a utility.
 * Familiarity with CIM (Common Information Model).
 * Experience contributing to regulatory or compliance-driven data programs.

## Description

Role - Data Architect / Data Governance

Defines how the platform should work. This role owns architecture direction, governance, and the assessment
work that shapes the enterprise roadmap.

Responsibilities

 * Design the target-state data architecture for the platform, including integration patterns for enterprise
and operational technology (OT) systems.

 * Build the governance framework: RBAC model, data classification taxonomy for a regulated utility,
catalog and metadata standards, and change management process.

 * Author design standards - medallion architecture specification, naming conventions, data quality
patterns, and testing approach.

 * Gather AMI analytics requirements through interviews across operations, engineering, and regulatory
groups; translate them into architecture requirements.

 * Assess the current technology stack to identify gaps, redundancies, and recommended additions;
contribute to investment sizing.

 * Produce architecture documentation and decision records that will outlast the engagement.