Data Architect
US-MA-Boston
Suffolk Construction Company
Req #: 9995
Type: Regular Full-Time
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Overview: About Suffolk Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds. Suffolk - America's Contractor - is a national company with more than $8 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. Suffolk manages some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR's list of "Top CM-at-Risk Contractors." For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram. At Suffolk, we believe that our total rewards program should offer you and your family the support you need when it matters most. That's why we have created a program that provides employees with access to a wide variety of options that can be personalized to support you and your loved ones physically, emotionally, and financially. Benefits include, competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, 401k plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company paid and voluntary life insurance, tax deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits and more. For more information, click here. Role Summary Suffolk is scaling its Data and AI team to deliver real-time, predictive insights across the build lifecycle. We're hiring a hands-on Data Architect to design, build, and operate the semantic layer, automated data quality controls (including AI-assisted checks), lineage, and access patterns that make our data discoverable, trusted, secure, and agentic AI ready. Reporting to the Director of Data Management, this individual will create reusable models/metrics, embed governance as code, and ensure every data product meets targets for reliability, availability, and semantic interoperability. Responsibilities: Evolve lakehouse and platform architecture * Own the target architecture for Databricks on AWS (S3/EC2, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow/Model Registry, Delta Live Tables) and the interfaces to Agentic AI stack/BI/IDE and downstream apps * Design ingestion and serving patterns, data contracts, and API/SQL access layers for internal consumers and agentic use cases * Plan platform evolution (governed multi-workspace layout, environment separation, lineage/observability) and drive high-impact upgrades and migrations with low downtime * Champion IaC & CI/CD (e.g., Terraform + GitHub Actions) for reproducible workspaces, catalogs, pipelines, and policies Evolve enterprise data catalog, lineage & semantic layer * Deploy and maintain data catalog across Databricks * Build & evolve the semantic layer - design subject area models, define conformed dimensions and governed metrics, and expose them for BI, APIs, and AI agents * Extract business rules currently embedded in dashboards / SQL and refactor them into reusable transformations, tests, and metric definitions * Implement and maintain lineage, technical and business metadata, and documentation across Databricks Unity Catalog; ensure LLM-friendly metadata for RAG and AI agents * Lead scaling of the Master data (Project, Vendor, Budget, People etc.) and golden record rules Implement automated data-quality & reliability controls * Embed rule-based and ML anomaly tests into pipelines and semantic layer * Define and monitor SLAs with incident playbooks * Drive continuous improvement to cut quality issues by 90 % year-over-year Operationalize security & privacy by design for analytical data stack * Partner with CISO to maintain security of cloud infrastructure for analytics and AI * Develop and implement data classification and access framework * Own annual assessments and audits for analytical data stack * Ensure adherence to all applicable data regulations and policies Build model & AI governance framework * Establish model registry, bias/drift monitoring, and audit trails for all predictive and GenAI models * Partner with Data Science to integrate governance checkpoints into pipelines Drive adoption & data literacy * Champion "data-as-a-service" culture-making trusted data and insights the default for project teams Qualifications: * 5+ years in data architecture/engineering within a modern cloud stack; 2+ years owning a semantic/metrics layer at scale * Strong SQL/Python with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow/Model Registry; experience with Delta Live Tables (or equivalent) for transformations * Proven track record standing up enterprise catalog/lineage and data quality automation * Working knowledge of access control patterns, data classification, and PII protections in analytical stacks; partners effectively with security teams * Excellent stakeholder skills, able to translate governance concepts to the broader teams
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