Database Architect

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 33 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Database Architect to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
  • Life insurance
  • A 401(K) plan with company match
  • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

**Location of job: Hybrid- 2-4 weeks in Huntsville, TX for training, and then remote in Austin, TX. Candidate must be located in local Austin, TX area**

This position will be used for the Agency’s major project, CITS (Corrections Information Technology System) and will help establish the data governance process for CITS and the Agency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team to understand the current data environment and define the long-term enterprise data strategy, roadmap for data management and governance program.
• Plan and lead discovery sessions with various stakeholders across the organization to understand the current data environment.
• Own the documentation of the current state, data strategy for data management and governance program.
• Define the data governance standards and policies, data governance structure and facilitate to implement the same across the Agency.
• Define Data Stewardship activities, standards for metadata.
• Define the process for data access and data security standards with appropriate controls.
• Define the Data Quality program goals, approach and implementation strategy; Execute the same across the business units.
• Engage with the executive team to define the data strategy that aligns with the organizational vision and goals.
• Engage with all levels of stakeholders across the organization to bring awareness to the data initiatives and drive the adoption.
• Evaluate tools for data governance and data quality, driving the adoption of the selected tool across the organization.
• Work with team to map fields from legacy to CITS.
• Aid in transfer of data with Service Bus as needed.
• Provide data management across all data management verticals, including data governance, data architecture, data quality, master data management, data integration, data warehouse and analytics for the CITS project.
• Create a Data analytics environment, creating reports, dashboards and predictive analytics.