Data Architect, IT-Remote
Job title: Data Architect, IT-Remote in USA - USA at UPMC
Company: UPMC
Job description: Purpose:The Data Architect-Remote position requires a high degree of technical expertise in at least 2 relevant domains such as data architecture, testing, security, cloud, integrations, Healthcare IT or similar. As a Data Architect, you will be challenged with aligning the technology strategy with the business strategy of multiple projects and/or department initiatives. You will lead the creation of best practices, policies, procedures, and other applicable technical documentation. You will lead various POC efforts. Data Architect is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision across a Solution Train to help ensure the system or solution under development is fit for its intended purpose. You will play a critical role in the Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) core competency by aligning the many solution builders across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Suppliers to a shared technical direction. Work From Home Opportunity!!Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design, development, execution, and deployment of the architecture program.
- Knowledge & Skill - Typically possesses 7 years of relevant work experience. Requires a technical mastery and business knowledge in multiple technology domains and has an operational understanding of supporting technology domains.
- Complexity of Work - Drives the design, development, enhancement, and implementation of all technology domains within a given sub-function. Evaluates new technologies for use in support of sub-functions goals.
- Strategy & Innovation - Establishes current and long-range direction of technology within the sub-function aimed at keeping the organization on the forefront of change. Collaborating and orchestrating across sub-functions.
- Scope of Influence - Design and integration of all technology domains related to a sub-function.
- Community Presence/Eminence - Has a presence in multiple job-related communities demonstrated through presentations at user groups, trade shows, and/or academic conferences as well as publication of written manuscripts and/or whitepapers in trade magazines and/or academic journals. Initiates contacts with key technologists and other subject matter experts and is a contact point for others to initiate communications with.
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field with 7 years of relevant work experience OR 11 years total relevant work experience.
- Holds deep technical mastery and business knowledge across a technology domain.
- Strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business, clinical and political factors.
- Has a broad background implementing different architectures to meet differing needs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and possesses good presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to direct the implementation of diverse technologies in a complex organization.
- Diplomacy and interpersonal skills to lead others to provide inputs for the purpose of sharing with customers, partners, and higher management on vision and need for key technologies.
- Demonstrated experiences innovating beyond the state of the art.
- Maximizing technical efficiency and setting technical direction.
- Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst or similar role preferable in health care and insurance services.
- Demonstrates Payer industry specific knowledge of business and processes
- Experience with enterprise data management technologies including data mining and segmentation techniques, data warehouses, data lakes, ETL tools, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, and master data management solutions.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI )
- Understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality principles, and data security best practices
- Preferred experience with Microsoft Azure BI and Analytics Stack including Azure SQL and related technologies
- Preferred experience with Snowflake
- Proven ability to work in distributed database and systems
- Experience translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
- Ability to articulate the business impact of IT infrastructure and solutions that translates technical performance into business success metrics.
- Highly driven and self-motivated to exceed expectations.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrated ability to collaborate lead in a team-based environment.
- Strong organizational skills - must be able to design, lead and manage teams composed of stakeholders across diverse teams/domains
- Demonstrates good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies.
- Predictive, Data Mining, & Machine Learning experience
- Hands-on experience with data warehouse modeling methodologies (Kimball, Inmon, DataVault, etc.)
- Experience dealing with real-time and large batch data pipelines
- Understanding of FHIR standards