Ad HocAH

Staff Data Architect

A path to transforming the nation's unemployment insurance systems.

Ad Hoc

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 153k-187k USD

United States only

Staff Data Architect

This is a remote position.

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs within the business unit. A Staff Data Architect exhibits strong influential skills to represent the data practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in data architecture processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Data Architect include:

  • Leads strategic and critical data analysis, summarizing findings to provide program recommendations

  • Owns overall data strategy and oversees data collection, organization, and storage for program(s)

  • Identifies business components and translates requirements into functional BI portals and dashboards

  • Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions

  • Responsible for data governance, eliminating gaps and improving data maturity

  • Aligns data architecture and standardizes access patterns to make data available to BI tools, apps, and websites

  • Oversees and aligns data organization, dictionary standardization, and glossary development with models

  • Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders

  • Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications

  • Serves as a mentor for data analysts, scientists, and architects

  • Supports data team members with shipping features, providing direction and guidance

  • Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates, evaluates homework assignments

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience

    • 18 relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

  • 2+ years of experience in a data architect or similar role

  • Experience with modern data architecture practices and emerging technologies in streaming, large-scale data processing, databases, ML, applied statistics, and visualization technologies

  • Experience solving complex business problems and understanding of the data architecture supporting them

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Current or recent Public Trust Clearance

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join/

Benefits:

  • Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401K with employer match
  • Paid parental leave after one year of service
  • Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $153,000 - $187,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Job Reference: STAFF001853

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A path to transforming the nation's unemployment insurance systems.

The time is ripe to rethink how the nation's unemployment systems, many of which still rely on manual and paper-based processes, can be improved through new technology and approaches.

Why Ad Hoc?

Invested in you

On all of our projects, you’ll be empowered to propose ideas on how to make things better. We believe in iteration, growth, and change, both in the products we build and in how we work. We’re invested in you learning new skills, challenging yourself, and growing your career — all while doing work that matters.

Work-life balance

Whether you need to pick up your kids from school or want to take a midday bike ride, we trust you to do your work when it best fits your schedule. You have the autonomy to choose the structure of your day, with the expectation that you’ll get the work done.

Remote life

Our team members live in 45 states, from Maine to California, plus DC. We're building a nationwide team that embraces diversity to make our work better.

Employee benefits

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Health, dental, and vision insurance

Coverage for you and your family

Disability insurance

Short and long-term disability insurance.

401(k) plan

Grow your savings with a match from Ad Hoc

Life insurance

Life and AD&D insurance so you don't have to worry.

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Ad Hoc

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201-500 employees

Founded in

2014

Chief executive officer

Greg Gershman

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