Data Architect

Dare to bring your unique perspective? At Novogradac, we value individuals who bring unique perspectives and bold ideas. If you’re eager to contribute to an inclusive, innovative environment where your personal and professional growth is encouraged and supported, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us. Position Summary: The Data Architect is responsible for the design, integrity, and governance of the firm’s analytical data environment. This role ensures data is structured, consistent, and reliable to support analytics, reporting, and decision-making across the organization. The Data Architect establishes and maintains data models, metrics, and governance frameworks to enable scalable, sustainable analytics platforms. The firm has one available position in either Austin, TX, Bellevue, WA, Long Beach, CA, Portland, OR, Dover, OH, Atlanta, GA, Cleveland, OH, or Fort Lauderdale, FL. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Data Architecture & Design
Design and maintain enterprise analytical data models and schemas
Define canonical datasets, metrics, and business definitions
Ensure alignment between source systems and analytical representations
Guide architectural decisions across data platforms and tools Data Governance & Stewardship
Define data governance standards, roles, and processes
Establish ownership and stewardship for key data domains
Define data quality expectations and monitoring approaches
Partner with business and systems teams to resolve data definition disputes Partnership & Enablement
Partner with Systems Product Managers to ensure source systems support data needs
Collaborate with Data Engineers on implementation of architectural designs
Support Business Intelligence (BI) Analysts by providing consistent, well-designed semantic layers
Serve as the primary architectural interface to IT on data-related matters Strategy & Roadmap
Contribute to the firm’s data and analytics strategy
Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities
Evaluate new data technologies and patterns in alignment with firm needs Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Deep understanding of relational, dimensional, and modern analytics architectures.
Ability to balance long-term architectural integrity with short-term delivery needs.
Strong experience with data warehousing and analytical data pipelines.
Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience working across business, systems, and engineering teams. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Data Science, Data Analytics, or a related field and at least 5 years of experience in data modeling, analytics architecture, governance and proficiency in SQL and Python. Additionally, at least 3 years of experience with cloud data platforms and modern analytics tooling. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Microsoft Azure data services (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse/Fabric, Snowflake). Familiarity with DevOps or CI/CD practices for data pipelines. Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI. Why work with us? Novogradac is committed to fostering a welcoming workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to grow. We believe in offering a supportive, balanced work environment that encourages professional growth and work-life integration. We are proud to offer:
Increased number of paid holidays per year
Competitive salaries with continuous review of market conditions
Flexible working hours and work arrangements
Remote and hybrid opportunities
Inclusive workplace, providing strong professional growth and development opportunities The benefits of joining our team
Strong growth opportunities
Competitive benefits package
401(k) package with firm profit-sharing
Strong emphasis on quality work-life integration
Dress for your day policy
Resources of a national firm
Opportunities to engage with our active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), affinity groups, and advance your career within a supportive, inclusive environment
Compensation: $107,000 to $145,000 depending on experience. More is possible if experience dictates. Don't meet every single qualification? After reviewing this job posting, are you hesitating to apply because you don’t meet all the listed requirements? At Novogradac, we are dedicated to building a workplace supported by unique perspectives and experiences, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or one of our other roles. Get to know us better! We’re Novogradac, a national certified public accounting and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1989, the allied group of Novogradac companies has grown to more than 800 employees and partners with more than 25 offices throughout the country. Novogradac is one of the nation’s top 40 certified public accounting and consulting firms and is a recognized leader in real estate and community development. Novogradac provides publicly and privately held national enterprises with a full spectrum of audit, tax, valuation, expert witness and litigation support, property compliance and general consulting services and works extensively in the affordable housing, community development, historic preservation and renewable energy fields. Ready to learn more? To be considered for this position, interested candidates MUST apply via our company website: https://www.novoco.com/careers. Commitment to Inclusion Novogradac is committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process, making reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special needs throughout the application process. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to apply, as we believe that unique perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve excellence. At Novogradac, we offer a variety of Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups to provide all employees with opportunities to connect, collaborate, and support one another in the workplace. Novogradac & Company LLP offers a progressive work environment, competitive pay and an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, life/disability insurance, commuter flex accounts and a 401(k). Novogradac and Company LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Novogradac’s culture is centered on education, acceptance, innovation and opportunity. We value diversity and respect the different perspectives that each of our employees bring to Novogradac no matter their age, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace for our entire workforce. By submitting an application with us, you are providing Novogradac with personal information. More information on how we use your personal information may be found in our Privacy Notice at Collection.