Role: Data Architect Duration: 6-12+months Contract to hire Phone/Video Interview Location: Remote FIS Relias to FRP Migration Program Role Descriptions for a 401(k) Recordkeeping Organization Role Summary The Data Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and overseeing the end-to-end data architecture required to successfully migrate participant, plan, transactional, compliance, and historical recordkeeping data from the FIS Relias platform to the FIS FRP platform. This role ensures that data integrity, regulatory compliance, reconciliation accuracy, retention requirements, and downstream integrations are maintained throughout the migration lifecycle. The Data Architect Serves As The Primary Authority For Data mapping Canonical data structures Conversion strategy Data governance Reconciliation architecture Historical data retention Integration alignment Data quality standards Azure Primary Responsibilities Migration Data Strategy Define enterprise migration data strategy for Relias-to-FRP conversion Establish authoritative data sources and systems of record Determine active vs archived data migration scope Define historical retention approach Create phased migration and cutover data strategies Data Modeling & Mapping Develop logical and physical migration data models Define source-to-target data mappings Resolve data transformation requirements Normalize participant, employer, payroll, loan, and investment data Define metadata and lineage standards Data Governance Establish migration data governance controls Define data quality rules and validation thresholds Ensure ERISA, SEC, IRS, SOC1/SOC2, and audit support requirements are met Define retention and archival standards Coordinate legal/compliance retention obligations Reconciliation & Validation Design reconciliation frameworks for: Participant balances Payroll contributions Loan balances Vesting Investment elections Historical transactions Define balancing and exception management processes Establish conversion certification criteria Integration Architecture Coordinate with: Payroll systems Custodians CRM platforms Data warehouses/lakehouses Compliance systems Reporting environments Define migration interface dependencies Risk & Issue Management Identify migration data risks Resolve source data inconsistencies Manage duplicate, orphaned, or incomplete records Support mock conversions and dress rehearsals Deliverables Migration Data Strategy Source-to-Target Mapping Documents Canonical Data Model Data Retention & Archival Plan Reconciliation Framework Data Quality Rules Matrix Conversion Validation Plan Data Lineage Documentation Cutover Data Readiness Reports Required Skills & Experience Functional 401(k) recordkeeping operations Participant transaction processing Payroll contribution processing Financial reconciliation Retirement plan compliance Technical Data architecture and modeling ETL/conversion tools SQL and large-scale data analysis Data governance frameworks API and batch integration architectures Preferred FIS Relias experience FIS FRP experience Retirement industry data migration experience Microsoft Fabric/Snowflake/Azure experience If Interested, Please share resumes at Syed@amnext.tech or Call at 331-222-9959 Skills: crm,frp,data quality,sql,401k,data structures,data,compliance,integration,payroll,o,4o1k,data governance,azure