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The role will define the data architecture roadmap, modernize the existing SQL-based data warehouse, improve data quality and reporting, and evaluate modern cloud platforms such as Azure and Snowflake.\nThe Director will lead a growing data team and partner closely with Finance, Operations, Service Delivery, IT, and Executive stakeholders to establish trusted, scalable, and accessible enterprise data solutions.\nRoles & responsibility:\nData Architecture & Modernization\n\nDefine and execute the enterprise data architecture roadmap.\nLead the design, optimization, and scaling of the SQL-based data warehouse.\nEvaluate and recommend modern cloud data platforms, including Azure and Snowflake.\nEstablish standards for data modelling, ETL/ELT, integration, governance, quality, and documentation.\nArchitect integrations with systems such as Microsoft Dynamics and ServiceNow.\nDevelop modernization strategies, technical recommendations, and implementation plans.\nBusiness Partnership & Analytics\n\nPartner with Finance and business teams to improve reporting, KPIs, and data consistency.\nEstablish common data definitions and enterprise reporting standards.\nIncrease adoption of the data warehouse as a trusted source of enterprise reporting.\nSupport self-service analytics and data literacy initiatives.\nCommunicate technical concepts effectively to business and technical stakeholders.\nTeam Leadership\nLead, mentor, and develop a data engineering and analytics team.\nEstablish delivery standards, operating practices, and performance expectations.\nPrioritize initiatives and allocate resources based on business needs.\nIdentify future capability and hiring requirements.\nPromote ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nExecution & Delivery\nOversee data initiatives from source-system ingestion through reporting.\nEnsure data platforms and pipelines are reliable, secure, scalable, and performant.\nEstablish monitoring, testing, documentation, and operational practices.\nIdentify opportunities to automate and improve data operations.\nCollaborate with IT, application, infrastructure, and business teams to resolve data issues.\nQualifications\nOver 15 years of overall industry experience, including at least 8 years in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or closely related disciplines.\nExperience designing, developing, and scaling enterprise data warehouses or data platforms.\nExperience evaluating and/or implementing modern data platforms such as Azure, Snowflake, or similar technologies.\nExperience integrating data from ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics and ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow.\nDemonstrated experience partnering with Finance teams on reporting, forecasting, KPIs, and business analytics.\nExperience leading, mentoring, and developing technical teams.\nStrong expertise in SQL-based data platforms, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and data integration.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and project leadership skills.\nWilling to work during Eastern time\nPreferred experience\nExperience with data platform modernization or cloud migration.\nExperience with Power BI or similar BI platforms.\nExperience in an MSP, professional services, technology services, or services-oriented organization.\nKnowledge of data governance, MDM, and data cataloging.\nExperience establishing enterprise reporting standards and business definitions.\nSuccess Measures - First 12-18 Months\nDefine the future-state data platform strategy and modernization roadmap.\nIncrease adoption of the enterprise data warehouse.\nStandardize fragmented reporting, dashboards, and datasets.\nImprove data quality, reliability, documentation, and reporting confidence.\nEstablish consistent enterprise KPIs and business definitions.\nImprove data platform performance, scalability, and maintainability.\nDevelop a scalable data team structure aligned with business needs.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4126,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Managed Security","Managed IT Services (MSP)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T11:51:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/abacus-technology-director-data-architecture","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/abacus-technology-director-data-architecture.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T03:10:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4345,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":655,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}