Data Management Architect

Perficient is a global AI-first consultancy. Our team of strategists, designers, technologists, and engineers partners with the world’s most innovative enterprises and admired brands to deliver real business results through the transformative power of AI. As part of our AI-First strategy, we empower every employee to build AI fluency and actively engage with AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency. We break boundaries, obsess over outcomes, and shape the future for our clients. Join a company where bold ideas and brilliant minds converge to redefine what’s possible - while building a career filled with growth, balance, and purpose.

Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Data Management Architect to join our team located in the United States. This role is primarily office-based at a local Perficient location, with travel and on-site client engagements expected as needed.

Job Overview

The Solutions Architect is expected to be knowledgeable in two or more technologies within the Data & Analytics domain. The Solutions Architect may or may not have a programming background, but will have expert infrastructure architecture, client presales / presentation, team management and thought leadership skills.
 
You will provide best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will assist in defining scope and sizing of work; and anchor Proof of Concept developments. You will provide solution architecture for business problems, perform platform integration with third party services, and design and develop complex features for clients' business needs. 

You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs. You will also contribute in a variety of roles in thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. You will challenge your leading edge solutions, consultative and business skills through the diversity of work in multiple industry domains.
 

About Us

The Perficient Data & Analytics Solutions organization supports a wide variety of clients, technologies, and applications. Our Team members drive innovation in the arena of data and analytics solutions. We work on innovative digital transformation deployment for various clients across the globe. We had explosive growth in the last few years to meet the demands of a massive transition to digital with an AI First approach. Our practice groups include Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Content Management, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Strategy and Search.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Lead Pursuit teams with clients as a Data SME – RFP responses, Proactive proposals etc. 
• Work with multiple business units within Perficient 
• Lead complex client engagement delivery, often with ambiguity and little direction  
• Plan and lead workshops with client teams to understand current landscape, requirements, constraints and map to the latest technology products and platforms to come up with future architecture 
• Create phased implementation roadmaps from scope and resources perspectives 
• Articulate complex architectures to a variety of client teams, both technical and non-technical and build consensus among varying 
• Learn new technologies and platforms quickly and keep experience relevant to clients’ needs 
• Lead teams based off global locations in multiple time zones 
• Represent Perficient as an authority on enterprise architecture topics at industry forums, conferences etc. 
• Take ownership of solutions and teams 

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience 
• Strong experience in latest data trends and associated technologies including, but not limited to, Data Quality, Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Master Data Management 
• Familiarity with Data Governance Concepts – Policies, Procedures, Operating Models, Runbooks etc.
• Expertise in building solutions from scratch as well as modernizing legacy architectures 
• Strong experience with data modeling in various industries 
• Expertise in at least two hyperscaler technologies – AWS, Azure, GCP  
• Familiarity in cloud-based data warehouse and/or lakehouse technology platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks etc. 
• Ability to communicate complex solutions to technical and non-technical users a