DATA ARCHITECT

Loudoun has been one of the fastest growing communities of its size for two decades. The Center for Digital Government has named Loudoun County one of the top five counties with populations of 250,000 to 500,000 in the past four years for its use and management of technology.

Do you want work/life balance? Do you want to make a difference in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States? Can you work as part of a team with inspiration, vision, and creativity? Are you passionate about the role of technology in supporting the mission of local government? Loudoun County's Department of Information Technology is currently seeking a talented, highly motivated individual to serve as Data Architect for County applications and databases.

This position is eligible for telework in accordance with the County's Telework Policy

This is an individual contributor role with minimal supervision and ability to do hands-on solutioning. The job would require strong understanding of data governance with a focus on Cloud solutions as well as experience with data analytics solutioning and management.

Specific job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Comprehensively define the data architectural solutions for Loudoun County's BI (Business Intelligence), Data Analytics and Data integration platforms while working with technical leads and Subject Matter Experts (SME).
• Translate business needs into enterprise data architecture requirements and identify and forecast future state data architecture alternatives.
• Manage architectural frameworks, methods, design patterns and tools and work with key stakeholders to document data sources and associated data artifacts, to include data models and metadata.
• Design Data Warehouse/data marts/data lakes/data hubs solutions and work with various data warehouse technologies to come up with plans that best support the County.
• Experiences with data design, database architecture, and metadata repository creation.
• Design information management strategies necessary to store, move and manage business data by applying existing, new, and emerging techniques.
• Design and implementation of ETL Workflows using SSIS and other related ETL tools.
• Define how information should flow and be consumed by various departments and customers.
• Define Data Standards, Policies and Governance Strategies for the enterprise.
• Determine data management lifecycle requirements such as data archival, retention and retirement.
• Provide periodic briefings to peers and leadership on the state of the data architecture.

Hiring Commensurate with experience

Loudoun County Regular Full-time Employees are eligible for full benefits including but not limited to the following as a part of a total rewards package!

• Retirement from the Virginia Retirement System (VRS)
• Annual leave (12 days a year to start with five available on day one)
• Longevity Leave
• Sick leave (12 days per year)
• Annual Paid Holidays (15 days) - Two and a half days for Thanksgiving-Wednesday afternoon through Friday
• 37.5-hour work week
• Group Health Plan - Option to choose a plan with a zero deductible
• Group Life Insurance
• Exceptional Performance Recognition
• Up to six weeks of Paid Family Medical Leave (at the end of the probationary period)
• Credit Union Membership
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Requires any combination of education and experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and at least four (4) years of experience supporting Data Architecture initiatives.

Any certification or work related to Database management is highly desirable. Technical expertise in legacy database environments and SQL server is strongly preferred. Experience with Oracle a plus. Experience in using various modelling tools such as TOAD, Microsoft Visio is preferable.

Preferred Qualifications:

We are seeking an individual with excellent analytical and technical skills. Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills. Microsoft related certifications such as the MCSD/MCSE Experience with Tableau, PowerBI or other BI Tools Experience with SSIS or other ETL tools Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions. Experience with Datawarehouse Cloud Platforms.

The successful candidate will undergo an extensive background fingerprinting check.