Business Data Architect

Duties:
Position is fully remote. Nonlocal candidates can be submitted, but work must be performed during Client business hours. The ideal candidate would have an understanding of how Epic Cogito & Clarity works and be able to track Epic build records. We would love to find someone with a combination of project management skills coupled with Epic Cogito build experience. The first part of this project is to identify build records and work with the analysts to identify impact on existing dashboards. The second part of this project is to potentially implement Epic radar dashboards and/or update existing radar dashboards that will be impacted by these build changes.
Job Summary:
Business Data Architect is a role that blends the disciplines of data architecture, business architecture and business analysis.
This role is imperative for an efficient and effective transformative program at Client in analyzing our current state and a map to drive to a future state to meet the data requirements and value stream recognition for data and analytics.
The individuals in this role are responsible for leading the transformation of workstreams and serve as the bridge/liaison between business operations, IT and the data reporting teams to translate business capture needs, current business/clinical processes into data management principles and models.
The individual in this role will ensure a conscious, frictionless and proactive approach to process and data changes as it relates to the work conducted in our Epic ecosystem.
This position is part of the central Client analytics team with broad exposure to systems such as the Epic platform, along with clinical workflow and business processes. -Key partners include clinicians, project managers, analysts, and developers of various domain expertise.
The BDA will be responsible for informing the design, build, and support of implementation of Epic design in adherence to a robust data strategy for Enterprise-wide operations and downstream analytics.
This individual will be an individual contributor/leader within a larger team with the goal of developing a sound data framework on which the organization can confidently drive clinical operations and derive analytic insights from subsequent data outputs ultimately fostering a data-driven culture.
Key responsibilities will include partnering closely with a variety of analytics consumers and business stakeholders to gather business requirements that will inform the modeling of data sources and foundational tables.
This includes documentation of the business processes that create data as well as system business requirements and functional requirements.
The architect will serve as a trusted analytics partner in key clinical and operational workstreams across the Client enterprise.
Facilitate discovery sessions with key stakeholder of current state Epic build and data models and database design as well as the identification of ideal/target future state build with an output of business/functional requirements documentation and corresponding business process documentation.
Research and evaluate, document database and models and implementation information and determine possible limitations and downstream impact of changes.

Education:
Required Education: -Bachelor's degree in Health Science, Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Business, or related quantitative fields. Preferred Education: -Master s degree. Required Certifications & Licensure: -Certification in Epic Clarity data model and other Epic clinical or financial data models. Preferred Certifications & Licensure: -EPIC Cogito PM certification.

Level 2A

Languages:
English( Speak, Read, Write )

Skills:
Job Summary (cont'd):
-Compare and analyze current state data models, database design and system implementation to desired organizational vision. -Present detailed reports to present to leadership on efforts and impact of recommended remediation efforts. -Create critical deliverables by workstream, such as business process maps, business and functional requirements, data lineage of upstream/downstream applications for critical data elements and an Architecture Decision Document. -Provide a traceability matrix of key decisions to be made by leaders with a valuation of the trade-offs of decisions made. -Translate business requirements and business operation practices into data collection and management processes.
Required Skills & Experience: -Eight (8)+ years of experience in data warehousing with designing multi-layered data warehouses and data marts using both relational and dimensional modeling techniques. -Eight (8)+ years of experience in integrating data both at logical & physical levels. -Eight (8)+ years working with multiple DBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, etc). -Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into data solutions. -Assertive (yet diplomatic) personality and the ability to handle change, excellent written and oral communication. -Strong understanding of Data Governance concepts, data lineage and meta-data management. -Strong consultative, presentation and conceptualization skills; proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio). -Proficiency in Erwin, Toad, or other Data Modeling tools. -Strong project management skills. -Thorough understanding of data architecture and modeling; proven experience to elicit requirements and develop constructs in conceptual and logical data models to support business. -Documentation of technical and business needs. Preferred Skills & Experience: -Experience with data manipulation and statistical analyses/model development (SQL, R, Python).

City: Philadelphia

Schedule:
Start Date: 01/05/2026
End Date: 06/30/2026
Hours Per Week: 40.00
Hours Per Day: 8.00
Days Per Week: 5.00