Data Architect

Urgent job Opening
Title: Data Architect
Location: Bellaire, TX 77401 (Hybrid)
Job Duration: 7 months (High Possibility of extension)
Client Industry: Healthcare

Role Description:

• The Data Architect's role is to ensure high level of data quality across the enterprise through the creation and management of sound data management processes.
• This individual is responsible for establishing metadata and registries, standardizing data naming, establishing consistent data definitions, associated business rules and monitoring overall data quality.
• The Data Architect will sponsor the evaluation and selection of all infrastructure components (such as software) for data management systems.
• Data stewardship protects and foster specific data collections for specific purposes (like a data warehouse for business intelligence or marketing databases), a corporate asset view requires that a cross functional needs are established and maintained.
• Governance bodies and stewards must exert change on business and technical people—who own the data and its processes—when opportunities for improvement arise.
• Serves as a senior subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with
• Enterprise data acquisition and business intelligence plans.
• Prepares and participates in "deep dive" technical evaluation meetings, investigating processes to understand data and communications flow within Client's Health Plan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture & Design: Lead architecture/design/deployment and technical quality of enterprise solutions spanning multiple technologies; research and recommend tools/standards; enable synchronization of data across entry points; ensure new systems adhere to data management practices and policies; and lead data warehouse discussions on modeling/integration/solution design.
• Data Integrity & Quality Management: Create and implement data management strategy; enforce validation at point of entry; perform regular data audits tied to performance measures; coordinate mass data-cleansing initiatives; and apply continuous quality improvement practices.
• Problem Analysis & Remediation: Identify and resolve data quality issues (uniqueness, integrity, accuracy, consistency, completeness); determine root causes, implement solutions, and communicate findings; ensure PM/SDLC methods include deliverables required for high-quality data.
• A broad IT industry knowledge with depth in multiple areas including application development, servers, networks and databases; familiarity with various operating systems used by Health Plan data processing techniques and practices; a working knowledge of a variety of hardware and software environments; full understanding of architecting internet and client server systems ; and full understanding of architecting integration and communications platforms.
• Process mapping, group presentation, written and verbal communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to a stringent timeline.
• Ability to apply knowledge of how the industry uses IT to address business challenges using, for example, technical standards and infrastructure, cross-industry trends that impact IT investment, industry-specific roadmaps, and IT enablers.

Required Qualification:
SQL; Qlik; Health catalyst; Snowflake and EPIC is a plus

Required: High School Diploma
Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree- computer science, business administration, healthcare administration or business or technology field

Required:

• 7 years Seven (7) years of experience in data warehouse/business intelligence and internet/client server systems including
• Three (3) years of RDBMS experience in data types, change control implications, performance optimization and full life cycle phase software development.

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