Senior Data Modeler

We're looking for a Senior Data Modeler to design and steward the data structures behind our mortgage, securitization, and risk platforms. You'll partner with data architects, engineers, business analysts, and risk/finance stakeholders to translate complex business concepts into durable, well-governed data models - and you'll be the person who can explain those models clearly to both a database engineer and a VP who doesn't want to see an ERD.

What you'll do

• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise data warehouse, data lake, and operational systems
• Lead requirements sessions with business and technical stakeholders; turn ambiguous asks into documented, agreed-upon models
• Apply dimensional (Kimball), 3NF, and Data Vault 2.0 techniques as appropriate to the use case
• Define and enforce naming standards, metadata, data lineage, and modeling governance
• Partner with data governance on data quality rules, business glossary, and critical data element definitions
• Review models produced by other team members and mentor junior modelers
• Support migration of legacy models to modern cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake)
• Document models and decisions so they remain usable after you've moved on to the next project

• 8+ years in data modeling, data architecture, or a closely related role
• Deep expertise in conceptual/logical/physical modeling and normalization
• Hands-on with a modeling tool (erwin, ER/Studio, SqlDBM, or similar)
• Strong SQL; comfortable profiling data to validate assumptions
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or equivalent)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication - you can run a workshop with non-technical stakeholders, defend a design decision in an architecture review, and write documentation people actually read
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience, * Financial services experience, especially mortgage, capital markets, or credit risk
• Familiarity with MISMO standards, loan-level data, or securitization data structures
• Data Vault 2.0 certification
• Experience with dbt, Collibra, Alation, or similar governance/transformation tooling
• Exposure to regulatory reporting (CECL, CCAR) data requirements

Work Authorization

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer without current or future visa sponsorship

$65 - $75 an hour - Full-time, Contract, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance, What sets a great candidate apart The strongest people in this role aren't just technically excellent - they're translators. They can sit with a business SME for an hour, ask the right questions, and walk out with a model that captures what the business actually means, not just what it said.

Pay: $65.00 - $75.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance