Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.

Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.

At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.

Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.

Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.

We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.

At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.

For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

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**Job Title- Data Architect with BSA Experience **

**Location- Cleveland, OH (5 days onsite) **

**Duration: Full time **

**Data Architect ** -

- Design and Architect Master data solutions to implement new business requirements

- Document the High-level design documents calling out the changes in all the aspects of end-to-end data and process flow

- Document data integration and quality principles

- Lead Data analysts to document the low-level technical design for the developers

- Closely review, validate time to time Data Analysts and Quality Assurance team deliverables

- Closely coordinate with integration partner applications to identify impacts and coordinate for the integration changes

- Drive the documented design for implementation with the crew

- Document the Master data technical user guide and update for every release

- Lead, triage and drive the data quality issues impacting the consumers.

- Lead efforts to cleanup the data and validate consumer impacts

**Good to have: **

**BSA - **

- Collaborate with the business Product and portfolio owners to groom business requirements with the technical design leads

- Document detailed business requirements, expected business process outcomes

- Document Release Roadmap rolling one year

- Assist business portfolio owners required process and capabilities to estimate budget

- Document and create Business requirements as Master, Product Epic, stories, and tasks for the crew to deliver as part of weekly sprint

- Act as a liaison between the business and technical group for business requirements

Data Architect

Novogradac is among the nation’s top 40 certified public accounting and consulting firms with more than 25 offices nationwide. The firm is a nationally recognized leader in real estate and community development, and is one of the fastest growing accounting firms in the nation.  

Our clients represent a range of industries with a major emphasis in the real estate sector. We provide publicly and privately held national enterprises with a full spectrum of audit, tax, valuation, expert witness and litigation support, property compliance and general consulting services, and we work extensively in the affordable housing, community development, historic preservation, opportunity zones and renewable energy fields.

Novogradac has earned the Great Place to Work certification and is recognized on two MOVE Project lists:  Best Firms for Equity Leadership and Best CPA Firms for Women. Novogradac is also a two-time recipient of the Handshake Early Talent Award. Novogradac offers opportunities to explore a variety of areas within the accounting, valuation and consulting fields while developing expertise in the fast-growing real estate industry. To see current job openings, visit our career page here:  https://www.novoco.com/careers. 

We provide first-class service to our clients while supporting the work-life balance needs of our staff. Many Novogradac professionals thrive with flexible schedules and hybrid or remote work arrangements. 

Novogradac sponsors national affordable housing, renewable energy and community development conferences with hundreds of the industry's leading experts and participants. Because of their industry expertise, our partners are frequently invited to speak at seminars and conferences throughout the country. To see upcoming conferences, visit: https://www.novoco.com/events.

Industry: Accounting
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees

Novogradac & Company LLP

Dare to bring your unique perspective?

At Novogradac, we value individuals who bring unique perspectives and bold ideas. If you’re eager to contribute to an inclusive, innovative environment where your personal and professional growth is encouraged and supported, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us.

**Position Summary**

The **Data Architect ** is responsible for the design, integrity, and governance of the firm’s analytical data environment. This role ensures data is structured, consistent, and reliable to support analytics, reporting, and decision-making across the organization. The Data Architect establishes and maintains data models, metrics, and governance frameworks to enable scalable, sustainable analytics platforms.

The firm has one available position in either Austin, TX, Bellevue, WA, Long Beach, CA, Portland, OR, Dover, OH, Atlanta, GA, Cleveland, OH, or Fort Lauderdale, FL.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**

**Data Architecture & Design**

- Design and maintain enterprise analytical data models and schemas

- Define canonical datasets, metrics, and business definitions

- Ensure alignment between source systems and analytical representations

- Guide architectural decisions across data platforms and tools

**Data Governance & Stewardship**

- Define data governance standards, roles, and processes

- Establish ownership and stewardship for key data domains

- Define data quality expectations and monitoring approaches

- Partner with business and systems teams to resolve data definition disputes

**Partnership & Enablement**

- Partner with Systems Product Managers to ensure source systems support data needs

- Collaborate with Data Engineers on implementation of architectural designs

- Support Business Intelligence (BI) Analysts by providing consistent, well-designed semantic layers

- Serve as the primary architectural interface to IT on data-related matters

**Strategy & Roadmap**

- Contribute to the firm’s data and analytics strategy

- Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities

- Evaluate new data technologies and patterns in alignment with firm needs

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**

- Deep understanding of relational, dimensional, and modern analytics architectures.

- Ability to balance long-term architectural integrity with short-term delivery needs.

- Strong experience with data warehousing and analytical data pipelines.

- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

- Experience working across business, systems, and engineering teams.

**Minimum Qualifications**

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Data Science, Data Analytics, or a related field and at least 5 years of experience in data modeling, analytics architecture, governance and proficiency in SQL and Python. Additionally, at least 3 years of experience with cloud data platforms and modern analytics tooling.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Experience with Microsoft Azure data services (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse/Fabric, Snowflake). Familiarity with DevOps or CI/CD practices for data pipelines. Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI.

**Why work with us?**

Novogradac is committed to fostering a welcoming workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to grow. We believe in offering a supportive, balanced work environment that encourages professional growth and work-life integration.

**We Are Proud To Offer**

- Increased number of paid holidays per year

- Competitive salaries with continuous review of market conditions

- Flexible working hours and work arrangements

- Remote and hybrid opportunities

- Inclusive workplace, providing strong professional growth and development opportunities

**The Benefits Of Joining Our Team**

- Strong growth opportunities

- Competitive benefits package

- 401(k) package with firm profit-sharing

- Strong emphasis on quality work-life integration

- Dress for your day policy

- Resources of a national firm

- Opportunities to engage with our active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), affinity groups, and advance your career within a supportive, inclusive environment

- Compensation: $90,000 to $121,000 depending on experience. More is possible if experience dictates.

**Don't meet every single qualification?**

After reviewing this job posting, are you hesitating to apply because you don’t meet all the listed requirements? At Novogradac, we are dedicated to building a workplace supported by unique perspectives and experiences, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

You may still be the right candidate for this or one of our other roles.

**Get to know us better!**

We’re Novogradac, a national certified public accounting and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1989, the allied group of Novogradac companies has grown to more than 800 employees and partners with more than 25 offices throughout the country.

Novogradac is one of the nation’s top 40 certified public accounting and consulting firms and is a recognized leader in real estate and community development. Novogradac provides publicly and privately held national enterprises with a full spectrum of audit, tax, valuation, expert witness and litigation support, property compliance and general consulting services and works extensively in the affordable housing, community development, historic preservation and renewable energy fields.

**Ready to learn more?**

**To be considered for this position, interested candidates MUST apply via our company website:**

**Commitment to Inclusion**

Novogradac is committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process, making reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special needs throughout the application process. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to apply, as we believe that unique perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve excellence.

At Novogradac, we offer a variety of Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups to provide all employees with opportunities to connect, collaborate, and support one another in the workplace.

~~Novogradac & Company LLP offers a progressive work environment, competitive pay and an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, life/disability insurance, commuter flex accounts and a 401(k).~~

~~Novogradac and Company LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Novogradac’s culture is centered on education, acceptance, innovation and opportunity. We value diversity and respect the different perspectives that each of our employees bring to Novogradac no matter their age, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace for our entire workforce.~~

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