Data Architect, Human Resources

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Data Architect, Human Resources for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Healthcare clients in Los Angeles, CA . (100% remote PST hours)

Responsibilities :

• Lead the design and evolution of the HR data architecture supporting HR Business Intelligence, Data Integrations between HR Systems, and BI tools like Tableau and Power BI.
• Develop scalable data models (conceptual, logical, physical) aligned with business needs.
• Oversee data integration frameworks, ETL/ELT pipelines, and interface standards.
• Evaluate and improve data quality, consistency, master data management, and metadata stewardship.
• Establish best practices for data governance, documentation, change management, and system optimization.
• Design, document, and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Develop data structures that support analytics, dashboards, operational reporting, and advanced BI use cases and/or data integrations/interfaces.
• Optimize existing data models to improve performance, scalability, and data integrity.
• Simplify complex data domains into well-defined models aligned to business processes.
• Architect data integration patterns (batch, streaming, API-based, message-driven) to support enterprise BI needs.
• Define standards for ETL/ELT development, data staging, transformation logic, and load performance.
• Oversee system-to-system interoperability and ensure consistent handling of master data and reference data.
• Evaluate existing interfaces and recommend modern integration best practices.
• Implement data quality frameworks, validation rules, and error-handling patterns.
• Partner with data governance teams to define data definitions, lineage, and stewardship models.
• Establish standards for metadata management, naming conventions, versioning, and data documentation.
• Support architecture decisions related to data warehouses, data lakes, semantic layers, and reporting repositories.
• Optimize BI performance through indexing, partitioning, caching, and model tuning.
• Collaborate with BI developers to ensure efficient, performant reporting and dashboarding.
• Provide architecture guidance for new BI tools, technologies, and platform enhancements.
• Lead technical discovery, current-state assessments, and future-state architecture planning.
• Translate business requirements into well-architected data solutions.
• Review and approve data design for new initiatives, enhancements, and integrations.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and architectural oversight to data engineers and BI developers.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, system flows, interface maps, and technical standards.
• Document dependencies, data lineage, and operational workflows for key data assets.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to data engineering, BI, and analyst teams.
• Support the creation of long-term BI roadmap plans and architectural frameworks.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field; OR equivalent combination of education and extensive professional experience in data architecture, data engineering, or business intelligence.
• 7+ years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server in an enterprise data warehouse environment, including advanced proficiency with:
  o T-SQL scripting
  o Stored procedures, functions, and views
  o Query optimization and performance tuning
  o Indexing, partitioning, and execution plan analysis
  o SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) or similar ETL tools
• Demonstrated ability to design, maintain, and optimize data warehouses and BI-oriented data models in SQL Server.
• Strong proficiency designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for analytical use cases.
• Experience architecting and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines feeding SQL Server environments.
• Deep understanding of data integration patterns (batch, delta, API, and event-driven).
• Hands-on experience with data governance, master data, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience with BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar) and the underlying data structures they rely on
• Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex data issues, pipeline failures, and system bottlenecks.
• Ability to translate loosely defined business requirements into technical architectural solutions.
• Demonstrated success planning and executing architectural improvements in a BI environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across IT, business, analytics, and data engineering teams.
• Ability to produce clear documentation, diagrams, specifications, data dictionaries, and standards.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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