Data Governance Business Architect

Join phData, a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack. We partner with major cloud data platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean and dbt to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions. We're committed to helping global enterprises overcome their toughest data challenges.   

phData is a remote-first global company with employees based in the United States, Latin America and India. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity, ownership and trust. Even though we're growing extremely fast, we maintain a casual, exciting work environment. We hire top performers and allow you the autonomy to deliver results.

• 5x Snowflake Partner of the Year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Fivetran, dbt, Atlation, Matillion Partner of the Year
• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, etc)
• Recognized as an award-winning workplace in US, India and LATAM

What You’ll Do 

As a Business Architect, you ensure that both ongoing and upcoming work delivers business value to the client. Additionally, you confirm the technical delivery team has the essential resources, clear priorities, and requirements to succeed when they begin their participation in a project.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and objectives
• Design and develop business architectures that align with clients' strategic goals
• Identify opportunities for leveraging data and AI to improve business processes and outcomes
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure the successful implementation of solutions
• Conduct gap analysis and recommend improvements to existing business processes, including Data Governance
• Recommend and design a future state Data Governance Program, focused on the operational and functional aspects
• Lead workshops and meetings to align stakeholders on project goals and deliverables
• Create detailed documentation, including business capability maps, process flows, and solution blueprints
• Develop and deliver presentations to senior executives and stakeholders
• Establish and grow customer relationships
• Bridge the gap between business strategy and technology implementation, ensuring that engineering efforts align with business needs
• Drive project team outcomes by ensuring alignment between business objectives, solution implementation, and measurable success metrics
• Create and deliver training programs to enhance governance awareness and competency across the organization

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in business analysis or product development, preferably within the Data and Analytics industry
• Understanding of data management, analytics, and AI technologies
• Direct client-facing experience in a consulting or professional services organization
• Proven experience in designing and implementing business solutions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Functional Data Governance expertise and/or exposure, including:
• Designing a governance operating model.
• Designing processes for effective data and analytical asset management.
• Drafting data management policies, that enable organizations to adopt Data Governance pragmatically, and with strong adoption. 
• Project management and leadership
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Technical Background & Expertise in any of the following: 

• Project management tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps
• Data Catalogs: Alation, Collibra, Atlan
• Data quality tools: IBM InfoSphere, Informatica, Talend, Anomalo

Preferred Experience:

• Business process modeling and analysis
• Strategic thinking and business acumen
• Conceptual modeling and analysis
• Change management and stakeholder engagement

Why phData? We offer:

• Remote-First Work Environment 
• Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
• Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
• Competitive comp, excellent benefits, 4 weeks of PTO plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
• Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications 

phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at People Operations.