Principal Data Architect

Are you looking for purpose-driven work where you can make a positive impact on communities around the world? If so, then Committee for Children is an amazing place to grow your career as a Principal Data Architect. We’re a social enterprise dedicated to advancing the well-being of children through the development of essential human skills. As a Principal Data Architect at CFC, you’ll serve as both the strategic lead and working architect for Committee for Children’s organization-wide data architecture. This role sets the vision, standards, and governance practices for how data is structured, integrated, secured, and used across the organization, while also directly designing and refining data models, schemas, and integration patterns in partnership with delivery teams. The Principal Data Architect ensures that data across platforms, business systems, and programs is consistent, well-documented, and accessible for analytics, reporting, research, and emerging automation and AI use cases.

At Committee for Children, data includes operational system data (such as CRM, ERP, marketing automation, licensing, and learning platforms), product usage data, and research and evaluation data. The Principal Data Architect collaborates with engineering, business systems, research, IT, and business stakeholders to translate organizational needs into scalable data structures and integration patterns, embedding security, privacy, and compliance into the architecture.

Our team is collaborative, creative, and passionate about our work. You’ll have an opportunity to make an impact every day and have a say in the way we use client success to transform the lives of children.

What you’ll do when you join us:

Data Architecture & Strategy

• Define and evolve CFC-wide data architecture across all major systems and platforms
• Establish clear data domains, system boundaries, and integration patterns
• Assess current and future organizational data needs and translate them into architectural direction
• Develop long-term data architecture patterns that balance scalability, maintainability, and delivery constraints

Data Modeling & Source Schema Governance

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models representing CFC’s core entities, relationships, and measures
• Define, document, and govern source system schemas including canonical fields, data types, naming standards, and versioning approaches
• Establish systems of record and systems of reference for key domains such as accounts, licenses, users, and programs
• Ensure consistent implementation of data models across operational systems
• Create clear documentation that enables shared understanding across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Data Integration & Flow Design

• Architect and guide data flows between CFC systems to support operations, analytics, research, and decision-making
• Design integration and transformation approaches that preserve semantic meaning
• Oversee large-scale data integration, transformation, and storage patterns for reliable analytics
• Monitor and evolve data flows to reduce duplication, fragility, and unnecessary complexity

Data Quality, Security, Privacy & Compliance

• Embed privacy, security, and compliance requirements directly into data models and integrations
• Partner with IT, security, and legal teams to align architecture with regulatory and policy requirements
• Ensure privacy and security protocols, including field-level encryption, role-based access control, deletion, and auditing are architected into and consistently supported across CFC’s data architecture
• Define data quality standards and validation strategies, including management of schema drift over time

Enablement & Collaboration

• Work closely with engineers, analysts, researchers, data stewards, and business partners
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on CFC’s data architecture
• Communicate complex data concepts clearly to diverse audiences

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering data solutions, with at least 5 years in a data architecture role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience with relational databases and SQL
• 2+ years' experience with Lakehouse architectures, including Delta Lake technologies and medallion layer data modeling
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale data models and source schemas
• Experience with data integration, transformation, and cleansing technologies
• Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance principles
• Experience with cloud-based platforms (Azure preferred)
• Experience with custom-built data systems, semi-structured data, data quality issues, and data optimization.
• Ability to analyze undocumented data structures, identify source-to-target mappings, and uncover hidden data dependencies

Note: This position is remote; employees are eligible to work remotely in any of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MA, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA. Travel Requirements This role involves occasional travel to the Seattle office, typically between 1 to 4 times per year depending on the position.

The hiring range for this position is $170,000-190,000 annually. The pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

What we offer

Our benefits, perks, and rewards are aimed at helping you live your best life at CFC.

• We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent’s medical and dental premiums
• Retirement plan + company match up to 3%; CFC
• A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs
• 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual
• Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.

About us

At Committee for Children, we’re dedicated to advocating for policies to enhance, gathering research to support, and developing educational programs to advance the safety and well-being of children through development of essential human skills.

We’re best known for our innovative Second Step® family of programs, which blend research and rigor with intuitive design to help young people build strengths that will help them realize their goals throughout life. We believe that if you make a positive impact on enough children, the ripple effect will help a family, school, community, and ultimately, the world.

We’re proudly building a more equitable workplace.

We’re committed to providing a place that empowers you to bring every bit of who you are to work. When you’re able to be yourself, you do your best work. It’s as simple as that.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, without regard to race, color, age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, genetics, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Apply now and help us achieve our vision of safe children thriving in a just and peaceful world.