Data Architect

Position Summary

Application deadline: August 11th, 2025

MoveOn is a people-powered force for progress. We wield independent political power by bringing millions together to take action to create a country with a place of honor and dignity for everyone—where all are welcome, we take care of one another, and where everyone is set up to thrive.

For more than 25 years, MoveOn has been a bulwark against the radical right and has channeled millions of voices to end wars, protect democracy, and advance justice for all. We’ve built political power for progressive change through mobilizing the left so that we can advance our vision of an America for all.

MoveOn is the largest multi-issue digital-first political campaigning organization in the country. We drive rapid-response campaigns at scale on a multitude of key issues at high-impact moments while building sustainable campaigns that resonate and grow over time. Whether it’s democracy, health care, foreign policy, economic justice, immigration, or otherwise, MoveOn provides our members with timely ways to take action for change.

MoveOn’s tech team is a 7 person team that works across the software stack and across the organization. We work closely with fundraisers, multi-channel campaigners, field organizers, analysts, and storytellers to implement and scale their ambitious plans.

We do a lot of data work using SQL, Amazon Redshift, Github Actions, Fivetran, and dbt but believe good data architects don’t need to come in with an exact match of experience and can learn our systems.

There are three primary areas of work for this position:

• conducting list management for all of our voter contact and member engagement work as well as ad-hoc query support (50%)
• designing, implementing, and managing MoveOn’s data infrastructure (30%);
• partnering with software engineers to maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines and syncs between 3rd party tools (no prior experience needed) (20%)

Responsibilities: 

• List management and query support (50%)
  • Target list management for election persuasion and voter mobilization programs. Ensure contact data is normalized and matched across organizing tools, creating a centralized, high-confidence view of outreach and outcome statuses.
  • Writing ad-hoc, as-requested queries to create target lists for outreach tactics or to provide staff with data and reports to support their work. Identify and document requests and processes that can be turned into time-saving automations, coordinating with engineering staff to implement as needed.

• Design, implement, and manage MoveOn’s data infrastructure (30%)
  • Standardize survey questions, responses and tags across different scripts and tools.
  • Build data load and data capture integrations to efficiently move data between Redshift and our outreach tools.
  • Continue the design, development, and management of our custom global data schema used to standardize and consolidate data across multiple data sources.

• Support data ingestion, transformation, and syncing between tools (20%)
  • No prior experience required
  • Support building and managing data warehouse ingestion and transformation pipelines from vendor APIs or SQL mirrors using Python scripts and/or Fivetran.
  • Support building and managing integration automations that synchronize transformed warehouse data to outreach tools.

A successful candidate will …

• Have a strong attention to detail and be a curious, fearless learner and problem solver who can independently manage several tasks/projects concurrently and prioritize work effectively.
• Be comfortable with digital technology, including learning to administer the voter contact tools used by MoveOn, as well as using internal communication tools like Slack.
• Have experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders and carefully listening to and translating request details from non-technical staff.
• Work closely with the tech and analytics teams to communicate organizing team needs and plan and build data pipelines and queries.
• Be comfortable proactively reaching out to and thought-partnering with stakeholders across the broader organization, with the ability to be effective in an organization whose staff all work remotely in various time zones.
• Adopt a digital security mindset to protect member data privacy and craft data management systems that are resilient to data breaches.

Required skills and experience

• High level of proficiency with SQL querying including query optimization
• At least 3 years of experience working with large relational data systems
• Experience with dbt or other similar tools for data ETL
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing and data schema best practices for design and implementation
• In-depth experience with integrating data from different sources and establishing data collection and management frameworks
• Experience using git for version control
• While not required, please mention if you have experience with any of the following:
  • Campaigning and organizing software (e.g. ThruTalk/Scale to Win, Spoke, ActionKit, ActionNetwork, Mobilize America, Upland Mobile Commons)
  • Voter file data from TargetSmart or Catalyst
  • Building and maintaining data pipelines

Reports to: Managing Director of Tech

Location: Position may be based anywhere in the contiguous United States. May require occasional travel.