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Suffolk Construction · 9 hours ago

Data Architect

Boston, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$114K/yr - $160K/yr

5+ years exp

Suffolk Construction is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests, providing value across the entire project lifecycle. They are seeking a hands-on Data Architect to design, build, and operate the semantic layer and automated data quality controls, ensuring data products are reliable, available, and ready for AI integration.

Civil EngineeringConstructionService Industry

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

Data architectureSQLPythonDelta LakeUnity CatalogMLflowData quality automationData governanceStakeholder managementData classification

Required

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

Benefits

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

Company

Suffolk Construction

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Suffolk Construction is a construction contracting company.

Founded in 1982

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.suffolk.com

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