<div><strong>Experience GuideStone!</strong></div><div>We are an innovative organization that invests in the spiritual, relational, financial, physical and professional development of our employees. We have a culture that values excellence, teamwork, humility, integrity, compassion and stewardship.</div><div><br><strong>What We Offer You!</strong></div><div>We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement.</div><div><br><strong>Job Summary</strong></div><div>GuideStone is seeking a visionary and hands-on Enterprise Data Architect to lead the design and evolution of our enterprise data estate. This role blends strategic leadership with deep technical expertise to enable secure, trustworthy, and well-modeled data for analytics and applications. As a faith-based, non-profit organization, GuideStone offers a mission-driven culture, strong work/life balance, and a collaborative environment where your work directly supports meaningful outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to shape data architecture across Azure platforms while mentoring teams and influencing enterprise-wide decisions.</div><div><br><strong>What You'll Do&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Define and maintain reference architectures for batch, streaming, and real-time data across Azure Data Lakehouse, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, and Databricks</li><li>Drive convergence on data modeling approaches (dimensional, medallion and semantic) and sponsor canonical models and domain boundaries</li><li>Design and prototype data pipelines, semantic layers, and medallion/lakehouse patterns using SQL, PySpark, and Azure tools</li><li>Establish data governance standards including SLAs/SLOs, quality rules, lineage, and metadata management via Microsoft Purview</li><li>Implement secure data platform practices: RBAC/ABAC, encryption, key management, and network isolation</li><li>Lead architecture reviews, translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, and align data strategy with business outcomes</li><li>Mentor data engineers, analysts, and citizen developers; elevate engineering standards through enablement and playbooks</li><li>Guide incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and architecture health tracking to ensure operational excellence</li></ul><div><br><strong>What You'll Need</strong></div><div><strong>Required Qualifications ​</strong></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience</li><li>10+ years in data/analytics, including 3–5+ years in architecture or lead roles</li><li>Deep expertise in Azure data services: Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, ADLS Gen2</li><li>Advanced data modeling experience dimensional, medallion and semantic modeling for Power BI</li><li>Strong proficiency in SQL and Python/PySpark; performance tuning for large-scale datasets</li><li>Proven experience designing secure data platforms with privacy, retention, and access controls</li><li>Hands-on experience with data governance tools and practices (Purview or equivalent)</li><li>Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps for data (Azure DevOps/GitHub), and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/Terraform)</li><li>Excellent communication and storytelling skills to bridge technical and business audiences</li><li>High integrity and confidentiality in handling sensitive business matter</li></ul><div><br><strong>​Preferred Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>Microsoft certifications (e.g., DP-203, DP-600, AZ-305)</li><li>Experience with event streaming (Event Hubs/Service Bus), MDM, and reference data solutions</li><li>Exposure to legacy interoperability (.NET/C#, SSIS/SSRS, SSAS/Tabular)</li></ul>

Data Architect

<div><strong>Overview<br></strong><br></div><div>Lifeway is seeking a <strong>Principal Software Engineer (Pr. SE) </strong>responsible for working across diverse teams and providing direction on developing and integrating applications and services. Our diverse technology footprint requires someone who can acknowledge and embrace the varying needs of different systems and stakeholders. Balancing back-office requirements of reliability and consistency with customer-oriented requirements that demand agility and responsiveness is a priority.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Experience defining boundaries of responsibility and ownership of the different capabilities required by the business and knowledge of current industry best practices for integrating them are critical.&nbsp; You will play a key role in helping the business and technical teams think strategically about system responsibility.&nbsp; As a technical leader, you will work closely with the development community to lead and review high level architecture, cloud-native proposals, and SaaS applications including integrations.&nbsp; The Pr. SE is committed to maintaining high standards for the quality and efficiency of work.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The ideal candidate is responsible for staying up to date with the latest best practices and technological solutions. They actively engage in all levels of development, champion best practices, and encourage teams to adopt and implement them.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Why Lifeway?</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Lifeway is a place where you can bring your faith and work experience to join in the most important mission in the world: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Whether you’re a creator or storyteller, data guru or problem-solver, or anywhere in between, if you’re passionate about serving the church, we have a place for you. Lifeway has a strong Work from Anywhere (WFA) culture that is deeply focused on our mission and values. While headquartered in Nashville, TN, many of our positions are remote-eligible and have autonomy and flexibility with work hours. We provide equipment and resources to ensure team members have access to a productive and ergonomic workspace. We believe building relationships and community is essential to how we work together, so Lifeway hosts all-team meetings several times per year and provides travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our comprehensive benefits plans including healthcare, vacation and sick time, holiday pay, care days, 401(k) plan, maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, mission trip time, and more. If this sounds like a place where you would be excited to serve the kingdom of God, we would love for you to join our team.<br><br><strong><br>Responsibilities<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Lives out Lifeway’s mission and values, showing deep commitment to Kingdom work</li><li>Lead, collaborate, and coordinate with developers, managers, and analysts across teams to design and architect integrations to support the flow of data between systems such as CRM, ERP, HR, WMS, eCommerce, and custom applications.</li><li>Provide architecture, security, and technical guidance to development teams on new architectural approaches relevant to SaaS software and other systems across the organization. Includes researching new approaches and developing proofs of concepts.</li><li>Collaborate with other Principle Software Development Engineers representing the intricacies of corporate solutions such as ERP (Financials, Order Management, Supply Chain), WMS, TMS, PeopleSoft, etc.</li><li>Analyze and improve existing system architectures, integrations, and migration techniques leveraging cloud technologies to improve speed to delivery for the business.</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Information Security, Business Intelligence, and more.</li><li>Participate in SaaS software and implementation partner evaluations to provide technical oversight and recommendations.</li><li>Hands-on development of cloud applications.</li><li>Minimal travel, occasionally overnight</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong><br>Qualifications<br></strong><br></div><div><strong>Education</strong></div><div>Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field - <em>required&nbsp;</em></div><div>Masters degree in computer science, information technology or related field - <em>preferred&nbsp;</em></div><div>Advanced graduate degree (PhD, etc.) - <em>not required</em></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Skills, Knowledge, &amp; Experiences, required</strong></div><ul><li>10+ years development and maintenance roles with an IT organization</li><li>Experience integrating with SaaS cloud applications, such as Salesforce, ERP, WMS, etc.</li><li>Experience leading or working closely with software engineering teams</li><li>CI/CD, security best practices, DevOps principles and practices, logging, monitoring, and alerting within a cloud environment</li><li>Cloud application architecture&nbsp;</li><li>Software design and architecture, including Domain Driven Design and Eventing&nbsp;</li><li>Programming skills</li><li>Analytical and problem solving skills&nbsp;</li><li>Proven history of leading people in a complex, fast-pace environment</li><li>Successful track record of collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders</li></ul><div>Actively involved in an evangelical Christian church</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Skills, Knowledge, &amp; Experiences, strongly preferred&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Integrating with Salesforce, Oracle Fusion, PeopleSoft, and other SaaS solutions&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with<ul><li>Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, or similar</li><li>Human Capital Management (HCM) - Workday, SAP, ADP, or similar</li><li>Warehouse / Transportation Management - SAP EWM, Oracle WHM Cloud, or similar</li></ul></li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Skills, Knowledge, &amp; Experiences, preferred&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Design, and other architecture and software patterns</li><li>&nbsp;API Gateway, Kubernetes, SQS, SNS, S3, Cloudfront, EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, IAM Roles, Kafka events or similar</li><li>C#, .NET 8+, Java, and other integration programming languages</li><li>Minimal APIs, Web API, RESTful APIs, Microservices</li><li>No SQL Databases (i.e. MongoDB, DynamoDB), Relational Databases</li><li>GitHub</li><li>Agile (Scrum)</li></ul><div><br></div>

Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Applications

<div><strong>Get Involved!</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>We are looking for a Product Technical Lead to join our Information Technology team, working in Coppell, TX! In this role, you will play a central part in shaping the technical architecture, vision, and implementation strategy for one of our key enterprise software products. You'll lead a small team of developers and collaborate with Product Owners, engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, secure and impactful software products.<br><br></div><div><strong>A day in the life of a Product Technical Lead:&nbsp;</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do!&nbsp; &nbsp; We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the role of <strong>Product Technical Lead,</strong> you will have the opportunity to:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and serve as a consistent witness to your faith.</li><li>Design, build, maintain, and evolve the products technical architecture, ensuring decisions support scalability, security, maintainability, and long-term growth.</li><li>Partner closely with the Product Owner to translate user needs into technical plans and engage in trade-off discussions to deliver maximum value.</li><li>Drive adoption of engineering best practices: automated testing, CI/CD, secure coding and performance monitoring.</li><li>Invest in the growth and development of your team by mentoring and guiding developers and senior developers, fostering a supportive, collaborative culture where people thrive and perform at their best.</li><li>Contribute hands-on to the code: build complex and foundational components, prototype solutions and help remove technical roadblocks. Implement patterns in the codebase that improve product quality and developer efficiency.</li><li>Collaborate with other Product Technical Leads and the Assistant Director of Product Development to establish shared technical standards, tools, and engineering practices.</li><li>Oversee the integrity and quality of deliverables: ensure code aligns with architecture, performance expectations, deal with technical debt and uphold reliable deployment and support processes.</li><li>Lead retrospectives; monitor engineering metrics; use data to drive continuous process and operational improvements.</li><li>All other duties as assigned</li></ul><div>Learn more about <a href="https://careers.samaritanspurse.org/pages/working-with-us"><strong>serving with Samaritans Purse</strong></a>.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience</strong>:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in software engineering, with proven leadership/mentorship responsibilities and experience building large software products.</li><li>Extensive knowledge of modern software architecture principles: microservices, API design, cloud infrastructure, and scalable systems. Strong full-stack development experience including front-end, back-end, database technologies.</li><li>Proficiency in engineering best practices: secure coding, test automation, CI/CD, observability, performance optimization.</li><li>Working knowledge of DevOps/tooling: containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, deployment automation.</li><li>Experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers and a strong ability to directly contribute to complex parts of the software codebase.</li><li>Comfortable working in agile, product-centered environments; able to pivot as business priorities or requirements evolve.</li><li>12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required)</li></ul><div><br><strong>Job Location: </strong>Coppell, TX</div><div><strong>Type:</strong> Full-Time</div><div><strong>Language Requirement:</strong> Fluency in English (required)</div><div><strong>Benefits:</strong></div><ul><li>On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)&nbsp;</li><li>Medical, prescription, dental &amp; vision insurance</li><li>Flexible Spending Account (FSA)</li><li>Long-term and Short-term disability insurance</li><li>Paid Family Medical Leave&nbsp;</li><li>Term Life Insurance</li><li>401(k) retirement savings plan</li><li>10 paid holidays</li><li>12 vacation/personal days</li><li>10 sick days</li></ul><div><br><strong>Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:</strong></div><div>Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.</div><div><br><strong>Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:</strong></div><ul><li>We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17.</li><li>We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:&nbsp; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.&nbsp; Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6.</li><li>We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.</li><li>We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7.</li><li>We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.&nbsp; John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10.</li><li>We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.&nbsp; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15.</li><li>We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church.&nbsp; 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23.</li><li>We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.</li><li>We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.</li><li>We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism.&nbsp; Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15.</li><li>We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10.</li><li>We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person biological male or female. These two distinct but complementary sexes together reflect the image and likeness of God. Rejection of ones biological sex is a rejection of Gods merciful design and creative order.&nbsp; Genesis 1:26-27;1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:5</li></ul>

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