GuideStone is hiring a
Data Architect

📍 Dallas, TX

Experience GuideStone!
We are an innovative organization that invests in the spiritual, relational, financial, physical and professional development of our employees. We have a culture that values excellence, teamwork, humility, integrity, compassion and stewardship.

What We Offer You!
We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement.

Job Summary
GuideStone is seeking a visionary and hands-on Enterprise Data Architect to lead the design and evolution of our enterprise data estate. This role blends strategic leadership with deep technical expertise to enable secure, trustworthy, and well-modeled data for analytics and applications. As a faith-based, non-profit organization, GuideStone offers a mission-driven culture, strong work/life balance, and a collaborative environment where your work directly supports meaningful outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to shape data architecture across Azure platforms while mentoring teams and influencing enterprise-wide decisions.

What You'll Do 
  • Define and maintain reference architectures for batch, streaming, and real-time data across Azure Data Lakehouse, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, and Databricks
  • Drive convergence on data modeling approaches (dimensional, medallion and semantic) and sponsor canonical models and domain boundaries
  • Design and prototype data pipelines, semantic layers, and medallion/lakehouse patterns using SQL, PySpark, and Azure tools
  • Establish data governance standards including SLAs/SLOs, quality rules, lineage, and metadata management via Microsoft Purview
  • Implement secure data platform practices: RBAC/ABAC, encryption, key management, and network isolation
  • Lead architecture reviews, translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, and align data strategy with business outcomes
  • Mentor data engineers, analysts, and citizen developers; elevate engineering standards through enablement and playbooks
  • Guide incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and architecture health tracking to ensure operational excellence

What You'll Need
Required Qualifications ​
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years in data/analytics, including 3–5+ years in architecture or lead roles
  • Deep expertise in Azure data services: Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, ADLS Gen2
  • Advanced data modeling experience dimensional, medallion and semantic modeling for Power BI
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python/PySpark; performance tuning for large-scale datasets
  • Proven experience designing secure data platforms with privacy, retention, and access controls
  • Hands-on experience with data governance tools and practices (Purview or equivalent)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps for data (Azure DevOps/GitHub), and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/Terraform)
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills to bridge technical and business audiences
  • High integrity and confidentiality in handling sensitive business matter

​Preferred Qualifications
  • Microsoft certifications (e.g., DP-203, DP-600, AZ-305)
  • Experience with event streaming (Event Hubs/Service Bus), MDM, and reference data solutions
  • Exposure to legacy interoperability (.NET/C#, SSIS/SSRS, SSAS/Tabular)
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