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)
Top Skills
What We Do
GuideStone is a diverse financial services organization that services more than 200,000 clients nationwide in the faith-based marketplace. We offer retirement, insurance, investment management, property and casualty coverage, and executive planning products and services to the Southern Baptist and wider evangelical Christian community. GuideStone sponsors the nation’s largest Christian-screened registered mutual fund family and is located in Dallas, Texas.
Do well. We strive to do well, to do our jobs with excellence. Our goal is to enhance our participants' financial security and to give our participants peace of mind today and confidence about tomorrow.
Do right. We strive to do right, to make integrity an integral part of our work. We believe that doing what's right matters. That consulting our consciences and acting on our beliefs is an essential component of developing financial solutions and investment options.
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