Data Architect

Position Summary

Are you looking to apply your Data Architect skills towards a great cause? Do you have experience designing and developing data architectures that can support an entire organization? Do you also enjoy collaborating with other members of the organization to understand their objectives and building sustainable solutions? If so, the Alameda County Community Food Bank may be looking for you for the newly created Data Architect role.

Alameda County Community Food Bank has achieved notable success in recent years — and is currently responding to an incredible increase in need in our community due to the pandemic and recession. Even with a passionate network of 420+ agency partners serving more clients — and distributing more food – than ever before, we’ve expanded our services even further to meet the growth in need.

Our organization’s success is built on bold decision-making, a culture of equity and inclusivity, and an environment that embraces innovative thinking to create a healthier, more prosperous and just community for all. With our latest strategic plan, we are setting a bold trajectory for the long-term work required to dismantle the systems that perpetuate poverty, including racism. Our staff regularly engage in conversations about race, class, power and privilege as part of our organizational commitment to equity, justice and inclusion.

Please learn more about our efforts fb.org.

• Catalog and inventory the current enterprise data repositories, analytic tools and related tech stacks
• Gain understanding of organizations reporting and analytic needs through interviews and collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Lead assessments to consider potential new data systems, vendors, and tools

• Designs and Develops data architecture frameworks to support the organizations objectives
• Develop strategies and propose solutions to expand and enhance the data architecture for organization
• Recommend tools and systems that support our objectives in balance with budget constraints and right‑sized appropriately for sustainability
• Partner with Director of IT to develop a long‑term roadmap for data enabling strategies

• Provide enhancements to existing data infrastructure to optimize the use of current tools
• Build and configure a modern data stack to reduced data silos, enables cross‑platform analysis and provides tools to data consumers
• Create systems and processes that support a diversity of technical capabilities and organizational needs
• Support organization efforts to integrated systems, identify single source of truth, improve data normalization and promote cross‑system data consistency

• Provide Training and Support assistance to users of the data analytics infrastructure
• Create documentation for data users and SOP to support its growth and development
• Provide maintenance and ongoing enhancements to systems

• Lead a cross‑departmental data user group responsible for reviewing data system changes, advancing data quality and governance practices, and supporting the ongoing development of organization‑wide business intelligence.
• Partner with the Data team to build and promote a robust business intelligence ecosystem that democratizes data and promotes data driven decisions.
• Collaborate with IT leadership to develop, support and implement strategic plans aligned with data analytics and business intelligence

• Champion best practices in data architecture, including data governance, quality, and security
• Partner with IT Team and data owners to promote the safeguard of our enterprise data
• Conduct audits of data systems and repositories to ensure access is provisions to protect food bank data assets
• Proven ability in managing access to and be responsible for protecting confidential financial information
• Superb judgment; ability to handle confidential information with great sensitivity
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive Food Bank data along with the ability to establish credibility, trust and partnership at…