Data Architect, Corporate Services

Company Profile The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $475 billion of assets under management, across 678 investment vehicles as of March 31, 2026. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,500 professionals operating in 28 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.  Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest – and has deep expertise across industries, markets, and geographies. At Carlyle, we believe that a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints drives performance and success. Our CEO, Harvey Schwartz, has stated that, "To build better businesses and create value for all of our stakeholders, we are focused on assembling leadership teams with the strongest insights from a range of perspectives." Reflecting this view, emphasis is placed on development, retention and inclusion through our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We cultivate a culture where ideas are openly shared and challenged, connecting diverse expertise and perspectives to drive enduring value. Department Description The Data Architect, Corporate Services is a senior technical role within Carlyle's Global Technology & Solutions organization, with ownership over the data architecture underpinning Carlyle's financial operations. The team is in the midst of a high-visibility platform build: the Corporate Finance Data Warehouse (CFDW), which consolidates fragmented legacy reporting into a single, certified source of finance data subscribed to by teams across the firm. This is a greenfield opportunity to define the data models, governance standards, and architectural patterns for a platform built to scale with Carlyle's growth.

Summary This role carries end-to-end ownership of the CFDW: the architecture, the build, and the platform that Finance teams, reporting systems, and downstream applications trust for certified data. This architect is accountable for the lineage, quality, and reliability of every metric the platform publishes.  The technical challenge is significant. Carlyle's finance reporting runs on a legacy Microsoft SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS estate, and this role leads its migration to a modern stack anchored in Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, and Sigma Computing or Power BI. Carlyle takes a best-of-breed approach, so the successful candidate evaluates tools on their merits and is comfortable building on any platform that fits the problem, not just the ones listed here. Equally important is the leadership dimension. This is not an individual contributor role: the successful candidate's primary leverage is through platform architecture, developing engineers, and directing a team of employees and contractors. They build and prototype directly when it matters most, and partner with the Finance Technology Lead and Finance stakeholders to turn reporting needs into durable data products. What Success Looks Like Twelve months in, the successful candidate will have moved Carlyle's corporate finance reporting from a fragmented legacy estate to a working, certified data platform that Finance teams actively subscribe to in place of independent extracts from source systems. The CFDW will be live, covering its initial domains, with legacy SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS reporting retirement underway. But standing up the platform is the floor, not the ceiling. The measure of success is whether Finance trusts it: certified metrics governed through a single semantic layer, end-to-end lineage that holds up under audit and SOX scrutiny, and AI-driven data quality monitoring that