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Senior Data Architect

Delta Dental Ins. · Alpharetta, GA · posted 67 days ago

In short: Senior Data Architect at Delta Dental Ins. in Alpharetta, GA, posted 67 days ago.

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Delta Dental Ins.employer

Alpharetta, GAlocation

Data, analytics and AIsub-niche

67 days agoposted

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The job

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Employer	Delta Dental Ins.
Location	Alpharetta, Georgia
Field	Technology › Data, analytics and AI
Level	Senior Level
Source category	Data and Analytics
Posted	2026-09-02 (67 days ago)
Work arrangement	On-site at the location listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

The Senior Data Architect will design and implement scalable data solutions using the latest and advanced technology and toolsets. This role offers the right candidate the rare opportunity to leverage their extensive background to design and architect scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native data solutions. The role will also be responsible for working closely with business partners and IT leadership to understand the organization's business requirements and work with the broader IT team to enable/build new capabilities in our data platform that will support the current needs and scale to accommodate future growth.

Responsibilities:

Lead the design and architecture of end-to-end data solutions, translating business strategy and requirements into scalable, secure, high-performing architectures.
Define target-state data architectures and blueprints, including data flows, integration patterns, storage strategies, data processing, and consumption layers.
Establish and govern standard architecture patterns for data ingestion, transformation (ETL/ELT), integration, interoperability, and data sharing across platforms and domains.
Architect scalable and resilient data pipelines and workflows, optimizing for performance, cost, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Design cloud-native data architectures that leverage modern data platforms for elasticity, resilience, modularity, and scalability.
Enable AI/ML capabilities through data architectures that support experimentation, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and production consumption.
Incorporate data governance, security, privacy, and compliance by design, including access controls, data classification, masking, lineage, and regulatory requirements.
Design for interoperability and seamless data exchange across applications, data domains, platforms, and external systems.
Lead the evaluation and selection of data technologies and platforms in partnership with IT, Enterprise Architecture, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise capabilities and strategy.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, Data Engineering, and business teams to define technology roadmaps, capabilities, and solution strategies.
Provide architectural oversight and governance for data solutions and cloud-native data platforms, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and addressing risks, gaps, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs.
Drive innovation through feasibility assessments, POCs, and pilots, evaluating emerging technologies and validating new architectural approaches.
Provide architectural oversight for vendor and third-party data solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, integration, and data standards.
Participate in architecture governance forums, contributing to design reviews, architecture decisions, approvals, and continuous improvement of enterprise data architecture.
Mentor and guide data architects and engineers, promoting architecture best practices, design excellence, and continued capability development.

Qualifications:

4+ years of experience in modern cloud data architecture or related fields, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Deep understanding of modern data and analytics platforms and technologies, including Snowflake, Matillion, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Tableau, and other industry-leading solutions.
Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise data solutions, including data warehousing, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data management, integration, and analytics platforms.
Extensive experience architecting end-to-end, scalable data platforms using modern cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure, with experience in cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud architectures.
Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures and solutions, with excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong understanding of data architecture patterns and technology capabilities across ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, APIs, and microservices, with the ability to evaluate and select appropriate technologies.
Experience collaborating with vendors and third-party partners to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security, and data standards.
Strong foundation in data governance, data quality, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance within enterprise data environments.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions, facilitate collaboration, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
Experience architecting data platforms that enable advanced analytics, AI/ML, MCP, and Generative AI use cases, while maintaining appropriate governance, security, scalability, and performance.

Base Pay Information

The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 22. $92,500 - $200,400

Additional Information:

Behind the smile! We are dedicated to safeguarding the health and financial stability of our employees and their loved ones. This commitment extends beyond the workplace to foster personal growth and holistic wellbeing. Our life-changing rewards package includes:

Competitive base and incentive pay
401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
Employee discount program

Fair Chance Ordinances and Criminal Background Considerations

This position requires that the applicant undergo a background check. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with any applicable federal, state or local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and/or New York Corrections Law Article 23-A.

Important Work Authorization Information

Please note, Delta Dental will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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This is a Senior Level role in the Technology field (Data, analytics and AI) at Delta Dental Ins.. Senior roles usually expect substantial experience, ownership of results and often the ability to guide others.

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The city

The job is in Alpharetta, GA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Alpharetta compares. Among the 100 largest places in Georgia, Alpharetta is #14 by population, #3 for household income (#1 = highest), #4 for remote work (#1 = most), #95 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Fulton County, is #1 of 159 counties for average pay ($100,817).

The place in numbers

Alpharetta has 66,855 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.6% of the population of Georgia. It covers 27 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,485 people per square mile. The median age is 41.3, 10% older than the state median (41.3 against 37.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,948 a month (rent plus utilities), 40% above the state median ($1,948 against $1,393). Over a year that is 15.8% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $649,000, which is 4.4 times the median household income ($147,612). 65.1% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (65.1% against 65.7%).

Work and pay

The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area has 2,889,670 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,170 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,170 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (328,500 jobs, median $47,040); transportation and material moving (313,910 jobs, median $44,120); sales and related (277,630 jobs, median $37,550). The area is most specialised in business and financial operations (1.3 times) and legal (1.3 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($130,550) and computer and mathematical ($110,010). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Fulton County was 3.6%. 71.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Fulton County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 54.5% drive alone, 0.5% use public transit, 1.8% walk, 36.7% work from home. 18.7% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 6% below the state average (18.7% against 19.8%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

70.7% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 102% above the state share (70.7% against 35.0%). 27.8% of residents were born outside the United States, 149% above the state share (27.8% against 11.2%). The poverty rate is 5.6%, 58% below the state rate (5.6% against 13.4%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 80°F (26.5°C), and the coolest is Jan at 40°F (4.7°C). About 1,292 mm (51 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (133 mm) and Oct the driest (88 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Johns Creek (5 miles, rent 16% higher); Roswell (5 miles, rent 7% lower); Milton (6 miles, rent 6% higher); Peachtree Corners (8 miles, rent 13% lower). Rent differences are against Alpharetta; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Alpharetta, GA that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
Alpharetta, GA	0 mi	$1,948	$649,000	$147,612	18.7%	n/a	Jobs
Johns Creek, GA	5 mi	$2,257	$629,400	$160,093	24.9%	n/a	—
Roswell, GA	5 mi	$1,810	$567,100	$128,654	16.6%	n/a	—
Milton, GA	6 mi	$2,065	$789,000	$171,295	22.0%	n/a	—
Peachtree Corners, GA	8 mi	$1,701	$484,700	$82,139	14.1%	n/a	—
Duluth, GA	8 mi	$1,828	$400,800	$95,331	21.9%	n/a	—
Dunwoody, GA	9 mi	$1,859	$602,900	$121,903	12.8%	n/a	—
Norcross, GA	10 mi	$1,715	$403,400	$75,266	15.3%	n/a	—
Sandy Springs, GA	11 mi	$1,870	$619,800	$104,340	12.6%	n/a	—
Suwanee, GA	12 mi	$1,885	$480,600	$103,260	23.4%	n/a	—
Chamblee, GA	13 mi	$1,859	$432,800	$84,452	11.9%	n/a	—
Sugar Hill, GA	14 mi	$1,862	$413,400	$107,389	26.7%	n/a	—
Holly Springs, GA	14 mi	$1,850	$448,400	$113,992	30.5%	n/a	—
Woodstock, GA	14 mi	$1,821	$436,500	$103,496	21.9%	n/a	—
Lilburn, GA	15 mi	$1,778	$329,700	$63,581	24.2%	n/a	—
Brookhaven, GA	15 mi	$1,882	$692,700	$117,663	10.3%	n/a	—
Tucker, GA	16 mi	$1,647	$384,500	$80,317	20.2%	n/a	—
Buford, GA	17 mi	$1,357	$368,700	$69,471	23.8%	n/a	—
Canton, GA	17 mi	$1,680	$407,800	$80,091	22.1%	n/a	—
Marietta, GA	17 mi	$1,586	$448,500	$72,725	17.9%	n/a	—

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Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Alpharetta, GA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
Charlotte, NC	211 mi	903,844
Jacksonville, FL	300 mi	977,670
Indianapolis, IN	408 mi	885,860
Columbus, OH	415 mi	914,802
Chicago, IL	568 mi	2,711,226
Philadelphia, PA	649 mi	1,579,706
Houston, TX	715 mi	2,328,253
Dallas, TX	725 mi	1,307,930
New York, NY	727 mi	8,483,844
Oklahoma City, OK	757 mi	697,125
Fort Worth, TX	759 mi	963,194
Austin, TX	830 mi	979,539
San Antonio, TX	895 mi	1,479,835
Denver, CO	1,201 mi	718,877
Phoenix, AZ	1,592 mi	1,642,323
San Diego, CA	1,889 mi	1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA	1,945 mi	3,857,263
San Jose, CA	2,105 mi	990,138
San Francisco, CA	2,169 mi	830,235
Seattle, WA	2,171 mi	754,195

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Atlanta, GA	23 mi	930
College Park, GA	32 mi	5
Chattanooga, TN	88 mi	5

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What is the Senior Data Architect job at Delta Dental Ins.?

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Alpharetta, GA.

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Median rent in Alpharetta is $1,948 a month and median household income $147,612 (ACS 2020–2024).

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