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About the Role

The ACLU seeks a Data Architect to design and implement large-scale data management solutions and architectural designs. This role supports the ACLU's mission by ensuring robust data strategies and systems for fundraising, advocacy, and engagement, while prioritizing data privacy and security.

Responsibilities

• Build, optimize, and maintain conceptual and logical data models and database architecture.
• Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand, document, and optimize data flows.
• Architect and build a consent management data model and data flows to ensure compliance with privacy legislation.
• Design and evolve enterprise data architectural efforts, defining resilient and scalable data models, integration patterns, and governance standards.
• Play a key role in the migration of the primary fundraising CRM, architecting future state solutions.
• Work with business leaders to understand, document, and deliver on compliance, performance, and security requirements.
• Define and execute on an organizational data governance strategy.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering and analytics engineering teams, establishing best practices and reviewing solution designs.
• Partner with privacy engineering to ensure data retention, deletion, and access requests are compliant and performant.
• Improve overall data reliability, quality, accessibility, and security.
• Anticipate potential issues and propose right-sized solutions.
• Write clear, detailed, concise documentation, including architecture diagrams, reference architecture, data flows, data models, and design/implementation plans.
• Grow the team's technical expertise through mentorship and provide technical guidance to peers.
• Help build a culture of growth and learning.
• Stay ahead of industry trends to propose innovative solutions.
• Perform data engineering tasks using Python, SQL, dbt, and Dagster.
• Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience as a data architect or in a similar role, working on large-scale data management solutions and constituent data.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing data strategies and tactical solutions that support organizational goals and business processes.
• Capacity to manage large, complex projects and lead or mentor engineers.
• Experience partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate strategic workplans into data architecture roadmaps.
• Deep experience with SQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms like Redshift or similar cloud data warehouse solutions (Snowflake, Azure Data Warehouse, or BigQuery).
• Strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including MDM, enterprise architecture standards, data curation, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, and data security best practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of peers and stakeholders.
• Comfortable with diving into technical work required in modern data practices, such as exploring API driven architectures, discovering limitations, learning independently, and sharing learnings.
• Strong problem-solving mindset to navigate complex data structures and environments.
• Excellent thought leadership, alignment-building, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and influence outcomes with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

• SQL
• Python
• dbt
• Dagster
• MDM
• ETL/ELT
• Data Pipelines
• Data Security
• API driven architectures
• Conceptual data modeling
• Logical data modeling
• Physical data modeling
• Data governance
• Data management solutions
• Cloud-based data platforms
• Redshift
• Snowflake
• Azure Data Warehouse
• BigQuery
• BI tools (e.g., Tableau)
• Machine learning frameworks
• Privacy regulations (e.g., CCPA)

Location

• New York, NY
• Washington, DC
• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Experienced data architect or principal engineer

Salary/Compensations

• $196,369

Benefits

• Generous paid time-off policy
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Parental leave
• Gender affirming care & fertility treatment
• 401k plan and employer match
• Annual professional development funds
• Internal professional development programs and workshops

About the Company

• For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
• The ACLU Technology Department covers the ACLU’s Analytics and its Product & Engineering teams, powering the organization's work by providing trusted, dependable, and impactful analytics, engineering, and product design expertise.
• The department delivers best-in-class solutions, services, and innovation that advance the ACLU mission and organizational priorities.
• The Tech team strives to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of technology, maintaining privacy and security standards, informing strategy with directional insights, designing products to disseminate the ACLU message and grow the supporter base, and stewarding high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.

Equal Opportunity

• Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
• We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
• We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
• We are as committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
• We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.