Lead Data Architect

Department OPS ITS - Analytics Intelligence Solutions About the Department IT Services (ITS) collaborates with campus partners to support the mission of the University of Chicago through the consistent delivery of high-quality solutions and services. We provide secure, stable, and reliable infrastructure and applications that support the mission of the University. ITS supports and enables faculty research and teaching with the effective use of technology, simplifies the technology experience for all users, identifies, manages, and mitigates technology risks for the University.

Job Summary The Lead Data Architect sets the architecture for how the University’s administrative data is sourced, modeled, integrated, governed, and delivered, from today’s warehouse estate to a modern platform ready for analytics and AI. This role owns the target architecture, the standards and patterns the team builds to, and the roadmap that moves us there; and it leads the technical design of the team’s highest-impact work. It partners closely with infrastructure, information security, privacy, and enterprise application colleagues, who own the hosting, access, and source systems the architecture depends on.

While the team moves to its target operating model, the role also owns the health, upgrade, and support roadmap for the current data platforms, working with the colleagues who administer them day to day.

Defines and maintains the current-state and target-state data architecture