Senior Manager, Data Architecture

Overview Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world's leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring. Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law. Any unsolicited resumes submitted through our website or to Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, employee e-mail accounts are considered property of Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized recruitment agency ("search firm") for Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by Baker Tilly's Talent Attraction team, to submit candidates for review via our applicant tracking system.

Job Description:

The Senior Manager of Data Architect (EDA) ensures Baker Tilly's enterprise data is standardized, secure, well modeled, and consumable, by defining and governing the firmwide data architecture across platforms and applications. The EDA translates business outcomes into reference architectures, data models, integration patterns, and standards, and enforces compliance through design governance and lifecycle controls.

Responsibilities:

Standards & Governance Own the enterprise data standards (naming, modeling, metadata, lineage, classification) and the authoritative data product definition; publish/maintain in Enterprise Architecture/Data Governance repositories. Establish and chair data design reviews for analytics and application teams; enforce compliance pre-production and at change gates. Architecture & Modeling Define reference architectures (data lakehouse/warehouse, MDM/Golden Records, streaming, API-based data services) and canonical models for core domains (Client, Project, Engagement, People, Finance). Author data integration patterns (batch/streaming, CDC, ELT/ETL) and quality/observability standards embedded in pipelines. Platform & Application Integration Set ingestion/promotion standards for analytics platform (e.g., landing curated consumer) and align with EA on system-of-record/source-of-truth and deprecation roadmaps (Workday, Salesforce, service line systems). Service line solutions—including Tax, Assurance, Managed Services, Consulting, and Business Operations—are explicitly within the scope of the Enterprise Data Architect. The EDA ensures these solutions adhere to enterprise data standards and integrate seamlessly with the analytics platform and architecture guardrails. Compliance & Risk Controls In collaboration with Data Governance leadership, Encode data policy requirements (access, use, retention) into architecture artifacts; ensure DLP/privacy controls are traceable from policy design runtime. In collaboration with Data Governance leadership, Documentation & Lifecycle Maintain architecture and environment documentation (diagrams, data dictionaries, lineage, RACI) and institute evergreen process for updates (e.g., access/requests, change control)

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in related field required 8-12 years of relevant experience Data Analytics and Design. Experience working with technology leaders and stakeholders.

Optional skills include:

Databricks, Snowflake design The pay rate range for this job position is $176,670 to $267,950. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant's skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees. All qualified internal candidates will be considered for this position, irrespective of their current geographic location.