Business Data Architect – Digital Project Delivery (Azure Databricks Lakehouse)

Job Title: Business Data Architect – Digital Project Delivery (Azure Databricks Lakehouse) Why this role Southern Company is advancing Digital Project Delivery to improve how data is created, governed, integrated, and used across large capital projects, with a primary focus on generation. These projects generate and rely on complex data spanning engineering, design, construction, commissioning, asset handover, schedule, cost, contracts, and document controls. When structured well, this data improves project execution, decision-making, risk management, reporting, and long-term asset value. As the Business Data Architect for Digital Project Delivery, you will define how project and business data is structured, governed, and connected across the project lifecycle. You will also serve as a key architecture partner to the technology organization, helping shape the target-state Azure Databricks Lakehouse, integration approach, and platform capabilities needed to support project delivery data at enterprise scale. You will help establish the data foundations that enable consistency across major capital programs, improve interoperability between systems and delivery partners, and support better visibility into project performance and outcomes. This is a highly visible, cross-functional role where your decisions will influence how Southern Company manages project information and digital delivery capabilities for years to come. About the role You will lead the business data architecture for Digital Project Delivery while partnering closely with enterprise architecture, platform engineering, integration teams, and cybersecurity to define how project data should be structured, governed, integrated, and delivered through the Azure Databricks Lakehouse and related enterprise platforms. This role is expected to provide technically credible leadership on lakehouse design principles, data movement patterns, integration architecture, environment strategy, and platform/tool selection decisions that affect scalability, operability, security, and long-term supportability. You will define the data domains, business structures, standards, and integration patterns needed to support major capital projects from planning and design through construction, turnover, and operations readiness. You will partner with project teams, engineering, construction, supply chain, PMO, IT, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to translate project delivery needs into scalable and governed data solutions. This role leads the business data architecture for Digital Project Delivery and serves as a key partner to technology architecture and engineering teams in shaping the target lakehouse, integration, and information management capabilities required to support major capital projects. The role ensures business data requirements are translated into scalable, secure, and governable platform and integration patterns across the enterprise. The role also helps drive architecture reviews, technology decision-making, and governance approvals required to enable new data platform capabilities, integration services, and supporting tools. What you will do Own the business data architecture and strategic direction for Digital Project Delivery, including core data domains, business definitions, information flows, and data standards across the capital project lifecycle. Define and govern the data structures required to support major generation capital projects, including project, asset, engineering, document, model, cost, schedule, contract, materials, work package, commissioning, and turnover data. Establish common business data models, taxonomies, hierarchies, reference data, and naming conventions to improve consistency and interoperability across projects, business units, systems, and external partners. Partner with business and technical teams to map how project data is created, transformed, handed off, and consumed across engineering, pro…

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