IT Principal Data Architect - ( Data Migration )

IT Principal Data Architect

• ( Data Migration ) at MAXIMUS in Boise, Idaho, United States Job Description Maximus is currently seeking an IT Principal Data Architect. The IT Principal Data Architect
• (Data Migration) is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, engineering, and delivery of large-scale, complex data migration programs, transforming data from legacy platforms into modern, cloud-based application systems and data platforms.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership, data architecture excellence, and delivery accountability to ensure migrations are accurate, scalable, secure, and production ready. The IT Principal Data Architect provides technical direction for data architecture, migration design, and pipeline engineering while coordinating end-to-end delivery across matrixed data engineering, platform, application, testing, and operations teams. This role is accountable for data migration strategy, technical design decisions, execution quality, performance, data integrity, and long-term platform sustainability. Why This Role Matters Modernization initiatives succeed or fail based on data. Legacy data landscapes are often fragmented, inconsistent, poorly documented, and tightly coupled to aging systems. Migrating this data to modern systems and data platforms introduces significant technical, operational, and regulatory risk. The IT Principal Data Architect ensures that data migrations are: Architected correctly to support scalability, performance, and future-state analytics Engineered using robust, automated, and testable pipelines Executed with strong data validation, reconciliation, and lineage controls Secure, compliant, and operationally stable at scale Designed to enable downstream analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases This role is critical to reducing migration risk, avoiding data-related production failures, and enabling long-term data platform modernization. This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determine optimal architecture to support business requirements and solve highly complex technical challenges.
• Stay current with industry trends/development and contribute to ongoing research and development.
• Guide and mentor architects and engineers establishing and maintaining architecture of highly complex solutions.
• Produce solution architecture and estimates to support initiative proposals and business development.
• Contribute to standards and approaches for architecture of enterprise data solutions.
• Optimize overall data/information flow by reduc

Job Posting:

JC291592111

Posted On:

May 09, 2026

Updated On:

May 09, 2026