Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fearless is a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. They are seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and govern the enterprise semantic data architecture that enables advanced analytics and compliance with federal standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise semantic architecture strategy and roadmap development to support scalable semantic data capabilities across financial, regulatory, and disclosure datasets
- Design enterprise ontologies supporting SEC financial, regulatory, and disclosure data
- Define semantic layer architectures supporting natural language query (NLQ), semantic search, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and agentic AI workflows
- Develop logical and physical architectures for lakehouse environments, knowledge graphs, graph databases, metadata repositories, and vector stores
- Establish metadata governance standards that include machine-readable definitions, business glossaries, data lineage, versioning, and stewardship models
- Define entity resolution strategies and identity management approaches to support consistent semantic integration across enterprise datasets
- Establish architecture patterns leveraging AWS Neptune, OpenSearch, Databricks, lakehouse architectures, and XBRL taxonomies
- Design lineage and traceability capabilities that support auditability and explainable AI
- Ensure compliance with SEC security, governance, and AI requirements
- Collaborate with federal stakeholders to develop semantic models across multiple datasets and forms
- Guide technical teams through architecture reviews and implementation decisions
Skills
- Minimum of 10 years of experience designing enterprise data architectures, with at least 5 years focused on cloud-native data platforms
- Experience with knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, graph databases, and metadata governance
- Experience with AWS, Neptune, OpenSearch, Databricks, and lakehouse architectures
- Experience implementing entity resolution, data lineage, master data management, and data governance solutions
- Familiarity with XBRL taxonomies, financial reporting data, and regulatory datasets
- Strong stakeholder facilitation and data governance experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance
- Experience supporting SEC, Treasury, IRS, CFPB, FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve, or similar regulatory agencies
- Experience implementing GraphRAG architectures that integrate knowledge graphs with retrieval-augmented generation workflows
- Experience with RDF, LPG, OWL, SKOS, or related semantic technologies and standards
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- Databricks Certified Data Architect
Benefits
- Flexible, life-friendly schedules
- 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
- Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
- Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
- 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
- Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
- Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
- Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
- Education, wellness, and tech allowances
- Referral bonus: $6K–$12K for each successful referral
- Pet insurance & discount plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage
- Performance-Based Bonuses: We believe your impact should be recognized. Our bonus program rewards both shared company success and individual contributions. Learn more about our bonus incentives here.
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