Department: Innovation and Technology Department
Salary: $108,851.00 - $156,473.59 Commensurate with Experience
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SUMMARY
Working Title: I&T Data Architect
Salary Range to Hire: $108,851 - $119,800 Commensurate with Experience
The City of Charlotte Innovation & Technology Services Department is seeking a strategic and technically proficient Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and optimization of enterprise data architecture for the organization. The Data Architect will play a pivotal role in enabling data-driven decision-making, supporting digital transformation, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
This role requires a forward-thinking professional capable of aligning data architecture initiatives with citywide business goals across public safety, public works, finance, transportation, permitting, and more. This role will work to reduce reputational risk and to improve trust in City data by strengthening quality, consistency, documentation, and accountability.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
· Strengthen the City’s ability to deliver reliable reporting, analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital services by ensuring data are accessible, trusted, governed, secure, reusable, and aligned to business needs.
· Develop and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, models, and documentation.
· Map data flows across major City systems, applications, databases, integrations, and reporting tools.
· Architect integrations between legacy systems, cloud platforms, and SaaS solutions such as Workday (ERP/HRIS), GIS (e.g., Esri), permitting systems, case management, Work and Asset Management (WAM), and public safety tools.
· Support Cyber Security in the identification and validation of where restricted data are stored, how they move, who owns them, and how they are used
· Partner with departments, application teams, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and analytics teams to improve data management practices.
· Support I&T partners in assessing new technology initiatives for data architecture, integration, reporting, security, and long-term sustainability impacts.
· Recommend improvements to reduce duplicate data, manual data movement, inconsistent reporting, and unmanaged integrations.
· Support data governance efforts, including data definitions, stewardship, quality standards, retention, and access controls as well as document source systems, data lineage, integration patterns, metadata, and data dependencies.
· Advise leadership on data risks, opportunities, and investment priorities.
Embody a can-do attitude and a penchant for collaborative problem solving with data
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
· Understanding principles around enterprise data architecture, data modeling, data integration, and data governance.
· Demonstrated ability to apply experience with relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, or similar technologies to support secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise data architecture.
· Enterprise architecture concepts and how…