Description

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current data environment, including data sources, integrations, reporting platforms, governance practices, security controls, and audit processes.
• Develop current-state and target-state data architecture across Azure Government, Microsoft 365 GCC, Microsoft Fabric, and related enterprise systems.
• Design secure data ingestion, transformation, storage, integration, semantic modeling, reporting, and archival solutions.
• Establish architecture standards for Microsoft Fabric components such as OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Power BI, and data pipelines.
• Translate financial reporting, public-sector audit, and compliance requirements into technical architecture and data-control frameworks.
• Design data lineage, traceability, reconciliation, validation, and evidence-retention capabilities that support internal and external audits.
• Evaluate and strengthen financial controls related to data access, change management, segregation of duties, data quality, reporting accuracy, and system interfaces.
• Define governance standards for data ownership, stewardship, classification, retention, privacy, metadata, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with audit and compliance teams to identify control gaps, document risks, and develop remediation plans.
• Ensure architecture aligns with applicable government security and compliance requirements, including NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, and organizational control frameworks.
• Design role-based access controls and information-protection strategies across Azure Government, Microsoft 365 GCC, Fabric, Power BI, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Support the development of policies, control narratives, data-flow diagrams, architecture diagrams, risk assessments, and audit evidence.
• Advise stakeholders on the appropriate use of Microsoft Purview or comparable tools for data cataloging, classification, lineage, and governance.
• Establish data-quality controls, monitoring processes, exception reporting, and reconciliation procedures for critical financial and operational data.
• Guide the migration of legacy data and reporting workloads into modern Microsoft government cloud platforms.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and communicate technical risks, recommendations, and roadmaps to both technical and executive audiences.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineers, BI developers, security teams, application owners, and implementation partners.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering architecture, or data platform consulting.
• Strong experience supporting public-sector organizations, governmental entities, regulated environments, or public accounting and audit engagements.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial controls, internal controls, audit readiness, risk management, and compliance.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Azure Government.
• Experience working within Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Power BI, semantic models, and data pipelines.
• Experience designing cloud-based data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, integration frameworks, and analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data lineage, data classification, retention, and records management.
• Experience designing controls for data completeness, accuracy, authorization, reconciliation, traceability, and reporting integrity.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, role-based access control, least-privilege principles, and segregation of duties.
• Familiarity with government and security frameworks such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, and Zero Trust.
• Ability to develop architecture documentation, data models, control matrices, data-flow diagrams, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder-management and consulting skills, with the ability to translate audit, financial, and regulatory requirements into technical solutions

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree