UKG · 1 day ago
Senior Principal Information System Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $209K/yr
15+ years expUKG is a leading Workforce Operating Platform that empowers organizations to optimize their workforce. They are seeking a strategic and visionary Enterprise Architect-Data to define and execute an enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring data is leveraged effectively to drive analytics and AI outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Lead the architectural design and strategy to ensure all enterprise data is treated as a unified asset. This involves creating a seamless consolidation and rationalization strategy that applies to all major data-centric initiatives, whether they are driven by M&A or by the development of new internal applications and services
Partner with application development teams to provide data-centric design insights into core business applications, ensuring the data layers are designed for scalability, quality, and analytical use from the outset
Analyze and document the current-state data landscape, including data sources, lineage, storage, and consumption patterns to identify gaps, redundancies, and modernization opportunities
Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, data flow diagrams, and integration patterns in alignment with industry standards
Collaborate with business leaders, data scientists, and engineering teams to define strategic goals and translate them into data, analytics, and AI requirements
Design and govern the target-state enterprise data architecture, incorporating modern patterns such as Medallion Architecture and principles of Data Mesh. This includes standards for the data warehouse, data lake, streaming platforms, master data management (MDM), and the platforms and patterns that support our AI/ML initiatives
Develop and govern the enterprise API strategy for data, defining standards for REST APIs and managing data access for internal and external applications through an API Gateway
Design and govern 'Reverse ETL' patterns that deliver analytics and AI-driven insights back into operational systems (e.g., Salesforce, Eloqua, D365)
Incorporate FinOps principles into all data architecture designs, ensuring solutions are optimized for cost-effectiveness by leveraging BigQuery best practices (e.g., partitioning, clustering), appropriate storage tiers, and efficient compute
Partner with product managers, solution architects, and business architects to ensure data solutions are designed for scalability, performance, and security while meeting business needs
Define and enforce enterprise-wide data governance standards, including data quality, metadata management, data security, and data privacy in partnership with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Office (EDAO)
Evaluate data-related requirements to assist in selecting the right data technologies, platforms, and tools that support a scalable, future-ready data ecosystem
Contribute to enterprise transformation initiatives by providing data-architecture-driven insights and strategic guidance on how to best leverage data assets
Facilitate workshops and working sessions with stakeholders to align on data definitions, standards, and architectural principles
Utilize predefined frameworks and templates effectively, ensuring all data architecture artifacts are maintained and regularly updated
Qualification
Required
15–20 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data management, or a related senior-level role
Proven, hands-on experience leading data platform consolidation and integration initiatives following corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Deep, hands-on expertise with the Google Cloud data stack is essential, including extensive experience with BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Run
Demonstrated experience designing data integration and Reverse ETL patterns for major enterprise SaaS platforms, specifically Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), and Oracle Eloqua
Hands-on experience with both traditional enterprise ETL tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend) and modern data engineering languages and libraries (e.g., Python, Spark)
Hands-on experience with API design and management, including designing REST APIs and using API Gateways (e.g., Google Apigee, Kong) to secure and manage data access for both internal and external applications
Deep understanding of both modern data architecture patterns (e.g., Medallion Architecture, Data Mesh) and traditional dimensional modeling techniques (e.g., Kimball, Star Schema)
Proven experience designing data architectures that support and enable advanced AI applications, including machine learning pipelines and integrations for Agentic AI
Experience designing, contributing to, or implementing an enterprise Data Marketplace or Data Catalog
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing robust data quality frameworks (e.g., setting up DQ monitoring, defining validation rules) and data security controls (e.g., data encryption, PII masking, column-level security) within a cloud data platform
Excellent and proven communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
You love working on data systems and are obsessed with quality, consistency, and scale
You enjoy solving complex problems and have a deep-thinking, analytical mindset
You think of 'data as a product' and have experience designing data services and APIs for consumption by a wide range of applications and users
You gain gratification from seeing your ideas take shape and become real-world solutions used by a large number of users
You are proactive, detail-oriented, and motivated by impact at scale
You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy bridging business and technology perspectives
You are an individual contributor who enjoys taking ownership and adding tangible value to the organization
You are a seasoned professional who can work independently with minimal guidance and assistance, while still driving outcomes effectively
Benefits
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Long-term incentive
Comprehensive benefits
Company
UKG
UKG™delivers HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions. It is a sub-organization of Hellman & Friedman.
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Leadership Team
Jennifer Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
Jim Joudrey
EVP and CTO
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