IT Data Architect

 

Company Overview: 

NRS is a leading provider of transportation & supply chain management services, and a family-owned and operated company that has been providing smart logistics solutions for the world's leading retailers and manufacturers for 60+ years. Whether it’s NRT, Keystone, Keystone Fresh, or Keystone Capacity, our innovative energy drives us towards new and valuable solutions for our clients, even as we continuously grow and strengthen our network. We are dedicated to creating a culture that empowers the individual and offers our associates the opportunity to apply their unique skill to the challenges facing our clients. In the office, the warehouse, or on the road, it is this commitment to our innovative spirit that unites us in common mission to push boundaries in the logistics industry. 

Join our team at NRS, Inc. and contribute to our mission of providing exceptional transportation and logistics services. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, and we are committed to providing our employees with a positive work environment and opportunities for growth and development. Apply now and be a part of our success story!

Job Overview: 

As a member of the Data & Analytics team within the Information Technology organization, the Data Architect is directly responsible for translating business needs into data solutions, designing and implementing scalable data architecture, and leading the design and evolution of our enterprise data model — the foundational blueprint for how data is structured, governed, and consumed across our organization. This individual will play a critical role in data modeling at scale, ensuring data is reusable, interoperable, and aligned with evolving business domains and system requirements. This role is also responsible for defining and implementing proper data management policies and practices across the enterprise data landscape and advising system designs, data integration strategies, and platform interoperability that are secure, performant, and semantically consistent across domains. This is a key role in our mission to deliver the right data at the right time to our internal business units and external customers.

 Duties and responsibilities:

 Lead, Manage, and hold Accountable

• Support and promote the company values, culture, and HR processes
• Clearly communicates data solution architectures to both business and technical stakeholders at all levels, building consensus with strong interpersonal and presentation skills

Data & Analytics Related Functions

• Design, develop, and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that support enterprise-wide analytics and operational needs, including standards and design patterns.
• Define and maintain the Enterprise Data Model (EDM) with extensibility, modularity, and business alignment.
• Assess and guide architectural decisions for systems involving data movement, data storage, analytical data egress, metadata, and shared master/reference data.
• Ensure data architecture supports data reuse, data quality, governance, lineage, and stewardship practices.
• Contribute to overall enterprise architecture discussions, especially regarding data flows, system interoperability, and future-state data architecture.
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and domain SMEs to translate business requirements into high-quality data solutions.
• Analyze data to understand its makeup, quality characteristics, relationships, and use.
• Assist in technology evaluations, tool selections, and defining roadmaps for modern data stack components.
• Partner with data engineers, system integrators, and application teams to ensure implementation fidelity across storage layers (e.g., Lakehouse, MDM, operational stores).

Deliver Innovative Solutions

• Future proof architecture to address advanced analytics needs such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Visualizations, etc. that align with the business needs for today and the future
• Establish a strategy of Data as a Product, Analytics-as-a-Service and Predictive Analytics platform for the organization

Business Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Partner with business leaders to build awareness and maximize value/impact of the function
• Build trust and strong w