Data Architect

Description:

The Data Architect plays a critical role within NAA’s IT team by ensuring that organizational data is accurate, consistent, and reliably available across all integrated systems. This position designs and maintains data models, integrations, and pipelines that power analytics, reporting and operational workflows across various data sources and platforms for NAA’s data warehouse.

This work is meaningful because it forms the technical backbone that enables staff to make informed decisions, deliver high-quality member services and advances NAA’s mission of strengthening the rental housing industry. By ensuring trustworthy data and seamless system interoperability, the Data Architect directly supports our vision of a modern, insight driven organization and reinforces core values such as integrity, service, accountability, and innovation.

The role is fulfilling for individuals who enjoy solving complex problems, architecting elegant data solutions, and influencing how information flows through an organization. It provides opportunities to apply technical expertise, creativity, and analytical thinking in ways that have clear and visible organizational impact. For someone with strong skills in data engineering, system design, and process optimization, this work aligns naturally with their strengths—offering both intellectual challenge and the satisfaction of building systems that empower colleagues and enhance the member experience.

By connecting deep technical skills with mission driven outcomes, the Data Architect can find personal meaning in creating clarity from complexity, enabling better decisions, and contributing to the long-term data strategy that supports NAA’s goals.

Principal accountabilities:

Data Architecture & Modeling

• Develop and maintain logical and physical data models to support operational systems, BI solutions, and analytical workloads.
• Structure data to ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and clarity.

Data Integration & Pipeline Management

• Support ETL/ELT processes that move and transform data between Salesforce, Nimble AMS, Data Cloud, and other connected platforms.
• Monitor and optimize pipelines for performance, reliability, and error handling.

Business Intelligence & Analytics Support

• Prepare and optimize datasets for Power BI semantic models and dashboard development.
• Partner with analysts and stakeholders to ensure data sources reflect accurate business definitions and align with reporting requirements.

Cross Team Collaboration

• Work closely with IT team members, business units, and external vendors to gather requirements, troubleshoot data issues, and support system enhancements.
• Serve as a technical resource for data-related questions, projects, and integrations.

Documentation & Standards

• Maintain detailed documentation for data models, mappings, transformation logic and integration workflows.
• Contribute to team standards and best practices for data management.

Requirements:

• Experience with the Salesforce data ecosystem and related API/Cloud technologies (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, MuleSoft, AppExchange/AgentExchange, etc.).
• Proficiency with SQL, Power BI/Tableau, and Data Modeling Tools.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred

• 4-5 years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, data integrations, or business intelligence development (or equivalent education and training).
• Experience with Nimble AMS or other complex association management systems.
• Familiarity with other modern data warehousing concepts, automation tools or cloud data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a cross functional team environment with multiple concurrent initiatives.

About NAA

The National Apartment Association (NAA) serves as the leading voice and preeminent resource through advocacy, education and collaboration on behalf of the rental housing industry. As a federation of 141 state, local and global affiliates, NAA encompasses more than 95,000 members representing over 12.5 million apartment homes globally. NAA believes that rental housing is a valuable partner in every community that emphasizes integrity, accountability, collaboration, community responsibility, inclusivity and innovation. To learn more, visit?https://naahq.org.

Benefits Overview

• Flexible Hybrid schedule (2 days in office)
• Competitive pay
• Growth focused, ‘people first’ company culture
• Generous PTO and sick leave
• Health, vision, dental and more including newly added infertility coverage!
• 11 NAA holidays + 1 floating holiday of your choice!

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms. The employee may occasionally lift up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment

Work is regularly performed in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment.

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.