Enterprise Application & Data Architect

Overview

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week)Employment Type: Full-Time

 

Are you a senior architecture leader who thrives at the intersection of application engineering and modern data ecosystems? We are seeking an Enterprise Application & Data Architect to shape enterprise-wide technology strategy, drive architectural governance, and enable scalable, data-driven innovation.

This role blends strategic influence with hands-on technical leadership, working across application, data, and integration domains to ensure solutions align with business priorities and enterprise standards.

 

What’s in It for You?

• Enterprise Impact – Drive architecture strategy across applications, data platforms, and integration ecosystems
• High Visibility – Partner with business leaders and senior stakeholders to influence technology direction
• Governance Authority – Define standards and guide enterprise-wide architectural decisions
• Modern Engineering – Work with DataOps, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted development
• Strategic + Hands-On – Influence both executive direction and code-level practices

Team & Environment

• Reports to the Director of IT Enterprise Architecture
• Part of a collaborative enterprise architecture function supporting application, data, and platform teams
• Works closely with data platform teams, application development teams, and business stakeholders

Your Role & Responsibilities

 

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, policies, and reference architectures
• Participate in and guide architecture review processes to ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Provide architectural direction and decision guidance for major technology initiatives

Business Alignment & Strategy

• Lead business capability discovery and translate business strategy into architectural direction
• Partner with stakeholders to shape roadmaps, investments, and technology planning cycles
• Ensure architecture is embedded early in business and initiative planning

Application & Engineering Architecture

• Guide application architecture decisions including system design, APIs, data models, and patterns
• Influence engineering practices including framework selection, CI/CD pipelines, and testing strategies
• Promote clean architecture, observability, and maintainability across delivery teams

Enterprise Data Architecture & DataOps

• Lead design and governance of enterprise data platforms (warehouse, lake, lakehouse)
• Define standards for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration (batch and streaming)
• Establish DataOps practices including CI/CD for data, observability, and automated quality controls
• Define and enforce data governance standards, including data quality, lineage, and governed access

Delivery Oversight & Validation

• Actively validate that solutions in delivery align with architectural standards and business intent
• Provide embedded architectural guidance to Agile/SAFe teams throughout delivery lifecycle

Portfolio Rationalization & Optimization

• Identify technical debt, architectural risks, and opportunities for system modernization
• Lead enterprise portfolio rationalization efforts to reduce complexity and improve efficiency

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience
• 4+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles
• 2+ years of recent DataOps experience
• 4+ years of project or initiative leadership experience
• Strong programming expertise (Python, Java, C#, TypeScript) and full-stack system design
• Expert-level SQL and deep experience in database technologies and data modeling
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade systems
• Strong understanding of application, data, integration, and enterprise architecture domains
• Hands-on experience influencing engineering practices and development lifecycles
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to enhance development workflows
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in health