KYM Advisors is looking for a Top Secret-cleared Senior Information Architect to oversee and address our customers’ data needs. As the Senior Information Architect, you will work closely with stakeholders to understand opportunity areas across the enterprise and translate this understanding into data models, domains, and capabilities. You will consider end user consumption requirements, business processes, system architecture, current and target states and the information required to support broad and/or specific information needs. You should be a tech-savvy professional, with experience using Collibra, and be able to explain technical details and requirements to a non-technical audience. You will also be motivated, results-driven, and aspire to achieve specific goals. The Senior Information Architect will design, develop, and manage the structure and organization of information at the tactical and strategic level. You will create visual imagery, dashboards, models and artifacts that guide technical requirements for data infrastructure. Based on changing business needs you will evolve existing models and artifacts depicting data structure and organization. The Senior Information Architect will inform business processes and organizational efficiency efforts that will enable the efficient and effective capture, flow, storage and consumption of data and information.

Position Responsibilities

• Oversee and implement enterprise-level data governance policies, ensuring the organization adheres to established standards.
• Develop and maintain data catalogs to organize and classify data across various platforms and systems.
• Ensure data designs adhere to Enterprise data governance policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Design and develop data models, including source to target mapping requirements to support program and project level initiatives needed to deliver on business requirements.
• Lead the enforcement of data quality, security, and consistency across the organization. Establish and refine data management best practices and operational processes to ensure high-quality data integration and accessibility.
• Inform the design of the Enterprise Data Model based on program and project level engagement, supporting capability reuse.
• Define data patterns and standards supporting program and project key performance indicators and strategic metric development.
• Design and oversee the development of reusable data products to support business requirements and value delivery teams.
• Direct value delivery teams on the appropriate use of data sources to deliver business value through data, business intelligence and insight delivery.
• Develop dashboards, data and information products of the highest complexity, typically requiring direct coordination at the operational system level in partnership with IT.
• Collaborate with client teams and supports data owners, data stewards and business leaders to define, measure and remediate data quality issues.
• Provide business/technologist support to IT, data stewards and stakeholders on leveraging processes, tooling, and best practices to automate data quality management activities.
• Engage with IT and 3rd party vendors as needed to support the documentation and validation of business requirements on master data management, data management tooling and other data intensive efforts requiring SME support.

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other relevant technology degrees or High School Diploma or GED and 15 years of progressive relevant experience
• Top Secret Clearance
• 10 years of experience in Data modeling and design
• 7 years of experience with knowledge in developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support business programs and projects
• 7 years of Technology experience and proficiency
• 7 years of experience influencing strategy at department or organizational level
• 7 years of experience in Data Quality Management

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with Collibra
• 5 years of experience with Microsoft Office and expanded product lines (Visio, MS Project, SharePoint)
• 5 years of experience working in the Federal space
• Proficiency in data profiling, data analysis, and data standardization / cleansing techniques Strong SQL skills with the ability to write sophisticated queriers across large, complex data sets
• Experience using statistical techniques to discover the root cause of data quality issues and recommend remediation options
• Ability to analyze data trends, identify patterns and proactively address potential data quality issues
• Experience with Collibra, Informatica, and Snowflake (Python, R is a plus)

KYM Benefits and Offerings  

• Competitive health care plans with savings accounts 
• Dental and vision plans 
• 401k with 100% company match up to 4%, with immediate vesting on company match 
• Life and disability insurance 
• Learning Management System with robust offerings 
• Tuition Reimbursement Program 
• Paid Time Off 
• 11 paid holidays per year 

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws: 

• EEOC Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal   
• EEO is the Law - Federal Contractors/Subcontractors
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act
• Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

JOB CODE: 1000050