Enterprise Data Architect

Req ID: 78250

Location: Richardson -RCHRD

Areas of Interest: Enterprise Data

Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Available

Application Deadline: 07/17/2026

BOK Financial Corporation Group includes BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc. and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA operates TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial.

Bonus Type

Discretionary

Summary

Are you passionate about data and believe it fuels an organization? We have an exciting opportunity awaiting someone like you!

Job Description

The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for creating, modernizing, and managing the enterprise data architecture for structured and unstructured data in an innovative, collaborative fashion. Working with all lines of business across the enterprise, the Architect designs strategic initiatives to ensure adherence to data standards and data management best practices. As a subject matter expert, the Enterprise Data Architect mentors more junior data architects, data solutions engineers, as well as other business and technical SMEs.

Team Culture

Collaboration is the key to success with this fast-paced team. While each person holds an area of expertise, we all join in to support the customer. Through weekly meetings, group huddles, and 1 on 1 peer training, everyone is given the opportunity to brainstorm, ask questions, and find solutions. We support and lift one another up to achieve more together.

How Youll Spend Your Time

• You will define strategies for high complexity challenges to reduce data redundancy, improve data availability, and accessibility by partnering with the technical teams.
• You will develop the overall vision and underlying framework for BOKF's data capabilities and activities.
• You will collaborate with Enterprise Data Governance to define data accuracy meets organizational quality and integrity standards.
• You will decompose complex problems to modules, related tasks, and construct tactical solutions with prescribed tools that can be adopted across the enterprise and introduces new tools or features to the framework.
• You will drive and execute proof of concept efforts and integrate into current data ecosystem and determine how new technologies can be leveraged.
• You will develop understanding of complex business requirements and take the lead to design enterprise information architecture solutions in compliance with BOKF data management principles and security controls.
• You will deliver a maintainable and reusable data architecture that meets the needs of the organization, ensuring pitfalls are avoided.
• You will act as SME to multiple data domains and is an SME for data sources in the domain and understand how the data within different domains relate.
• You will define how data should be acquired, stored, processed, distributed, and consumed across different data technologies and architectures.
• You will approve standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of data.
• You will mentor more junior data architects, data solutions engineers, as well as other business and technical SMEs.
• You will anticipate changing data-related technologies, looking for trends and opportunities for BOKF to adopt and roadmap for current and future needs.

Education & Experience Requirements

The required level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in information systems, data analytics or a related field and 15+ years' experience in a data discipline such as developing and implementing data framework, reference models, or data modeling (operational and analytical). Certification in TOGAF (or similar framework required)

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Office

BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!

Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!

The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.

Please contact recruiting_coordinators@bokf.com with any questions.