Senior Data Architect - Customer Domain

Are you passionate about designing durable, trusted customer data models that power analytics, modernization, and AI at scale? Trissential is partnering with a large, regulated enterprise to bring on a Senior Data Architect - Customer Domain to lead the evolution of a single, authoritative customer data model supporting CIS modernization and enterprise data-as-a-product initiatives.

This is a highly visible, hands-on architecture role where your work becomes the backbone for how millions of customers are understood, served, and analyzed across the enterprise.

What’s In It for You?

• Architectural Ownership & Influence - Be the authoritative owner of the enterprise customer domain model, shaping how customer data is defined and consumed across platforms
• Enterprise-Scale Impact - Support millions of customers and long-lived operational systems in a complex, regulated environment
• Data-as-a-Product Leadership - Design customer data products with clear ownership, contracts, and lifecycle management
• Modern Data Ecosystem - Work across AWS-native systems, SaaS platforms, and a Databricks-based enterprise data fabric
• Strategic Visibility - Partner closely with engineering, analytics, governance, and architecture leaders to drive consistency and trust in customer data

Your Role & Responsibilities

Customer Data Model Ownership

• Own and evolve the enterprise customer domain model across conceptual, logical, canonical, and physical layers
• Define canonical customer entities, identifiers, hierarchies, and relationships across CRM, billing, CIS, and downstream systems
• Govern model evolution to support new business capabilities while preventing redundancy and fragmentation
• Resolve semantic conflicts and enforce consistent customer definitions enterprise-wide

Data Product Leadership

• Own customer-centric data products including curated datasets, views, and domain data assets
• Define and maintain data product contracts (schemas, SLAs, quality rules, access patterns, and usage expectations)
• Partner with engineering and analytics teams to ensure data products are production-ready, discoverable, and reusable
• Design customer data products to support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases

Architecture & Platform Alignment

• Ensure alignment with enterprise data platform standards (lakehouse, catalogs, governance frameworks)
• Guide ingestion, transformation, and persistence patterns to preserve model integrity and performance
• Collaborate with application, integration, and analytics architects to embed consistent customer data across solutions
• Participate in architecture governance forums and provide clear recommendations and rationale

Governance, Quality & Enablement

• Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and stewardship processes
• Partner with data governance teams on metadata, lineage, classification, and access controls
• Enable downstream teams through clear documentation, diagrams, and reference models
• Act as a subject-matter expert for customer data during design reviews and delivery engagements

Do you have experience in Data Architecture Design (Architecture design skills)?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * 8+ years of experience in data architecture or advanced data modeling roles

• Deep expertise in conceptual, logical, canonical, and physical data modeling (3NF, dimensional, hybrid)
• Proven experience owning and evolving a core enterprise domain model (Customer, Party, Account, etc.)
• Strong understanding of data-as-a-product principles including ownership, contracts, and lifecycle management
• Hands-on experience with modern data platforms (cloud, lakehouse, data catalogs)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex models to technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in regulated or complex industries (utilities, finance, healthcare, telecommunications)
• Background in customer master data management, identity resolution, or cross-system harmonization
• Experience supporting analytics and AI/ML use cases with high-quality, well-modeled data
• Exposure to AWS-native architectures and Databricks-based data platforms

Education & Certifications You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Advanced data architecture or cloud certifications are a plus

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance, At Trissential, we value expertise, ownership, and collaboration. By joining our client’s team, you’ll work on high-impact initiatives while enjoying flexibility and strong support.
• Competitive Compensation -$99-$109 per hour. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography
• Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents - Medical, dental, vision, free tele-health, HSA with company contribution, life and disability insurance, and 401k with matching
• Paid Time Off - Offers paid time away from work
• Career Growth - Opportunities to work on enterprise modernization, data products, and AI-ready architectures
• Supportive Culture - Collaborative teams that value clarity, quality, and long-term thinking