ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Division

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures

Main Office Location: 100 N. 15th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85007

Salary: Up to $100,000

Grade: 27

Open Until Business Needs Are Met (1st Review of Resumes 8/03/2026)

The Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Division, is seeking a visionary and strategic Data Architect to serve as a key technology leader within our organization. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for defining, designing, and managing the agency's overarching data architecture, playing a crucial part in bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution. By translating complex business and system requirements into robust conceptual, logical, and physical data models, you will directly drive process efficiencies across our systems.

Beyond modeling, you will design, maintain, and support ADOA’s data warehouse systems and data marts. Your expertise will ensure that all data structures are highly optimized, seamlessly integrated, and rigidly secure to support the evolving decision-making and operational needs of the state. If you are a collaborative leader passionate about transforming data into a secure, high-performing organizational asset, we invite you to help shape the future of Arizona's ERP landscape.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

• Design and Model Data Solutions: Architect, maintain, and provide ongoing technical support for the agency’s data warehouse systems and related data marts.
• Translate Requirements into Models: Utilize advanced systems analysis to translate complex business and system requirements into high-performing conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Optimize Data Structure and Quality: Evaluate existing data structures to recommend and implement critical optimizations and reconfigurations, while documenting and leading continuous data quality and cleansing efforts.
• Bridge Gaps and Collaborate: Conduct detailed gap analyses to improve overall data quality, metadata, and cross-system integration. Partner closely with clients, technical staff, and cross-functional team members to plan, develop, and enhance database applications, scripts, procedures, and metadata.
• Formulate Data and Recovery Strategies: Research business information needs to identify system requirements, generate comprehensive data acquisition and archive recovery strategies, and seamlessly integrate new data with the existing warehouse structure.
• Establish Standards and Manage Vendor Relations: Develop and enforce organizational data standards in alignment with established structures and models, and consult with external vendors to successfully integrate specialized software packages.

Knowledge of:

• Data architecture using tools such as context diagrams and data flow architecture diagrams.
• Data integration, data quality, and data catalog toolsets.
  Data migration methodologies, data mining and segmentation techniques.
• Data virtualization and related technologies.

Skills in:

• Data modeling and architecture expertise in production as well as data warehouse and analytics environments.
• Enterprise-wide data modeling and architecture.
• Converting business requirements and architecture into data architecture.
• Understanding and applying the SDLC, agile project management, requirement gathering, design, test and validation techniques.

Ability to:

• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with cross-functional business and technology teams.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management or closely related field.
• 2 years of experience in a business intelligence or data analysis role.
• MS Power BI Data Analyst certification (Preferred).

• Background and reference check, including state and federal criminal records fingerprint check.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

The Arizona Department of Administration offers a comprehensive benefits package to include:

• Sick leave
• Vacation with 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program)
• Health and dental insurance
• Retirement plan
• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Optional employee benefits include short-term disability insurance, deferred compensation plans, and supplemental life insurance
  

By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion.

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave program here For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

• Participation in ASRS Lifetime Benefit Pension Plan after 26 weeks of employment.

• If you have any questions please feel free to contact Christopher Langseth at christopher.langseth@azdoa.gov for assistance.
• The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer.