Lead Data Specialist

Job Title: Lead Data Specialist
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 1 year Contract with Possible extension
Work Hours: 8 am - 5 pm EST

Position Description and Job Skill Set
Objective:
The Client seeks an experienced professional to participate in planning and execution of data cleansing and data migration initiatives and concurrently participate in development of data models, data stack architecture, technical implementation and other critical functions of data management that will enable evidence-based Child Welfare Practice at Client.

Position Summary:
This position is full-time (40 hours weekly) and requires an individual to participate as a significantly contributing team member on the Client's Data Management Team (DMT). The near-term Product of this team and this position includes participating in data related migration and design activities on the replacement of legacy case management system with the new CCWIS Cloud-Based hosted solution, and additional to that, planning and implementation of cloud-based data stack to enable robust and actionable analytics capabilities at Client. This individual will be reporting to the lead architect on DMT.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support and participation in Identification and management of data-related issues / risks and gaps
• Understanding, conceiving and documenting source and target-state data architectures for applications and cloud[1]based data analytic platforms
• Data Pipeline Design and Implementation
• Development of subject matter expertise in business drivers, business semantic meaning and business practice when
• providing data management services.
• Design and Development of ETL architecture and technical work packages
• Deliver on measurable improvements of data quality metrics
• Entity Relationship Diagramming, Business Vocabulary, Data Dictionary, Multi-Dimensional Models, Semantic Models
• Data mapping specifications for migration from large legacy database to new case management application, entity
• relationship diagrams, data base schema, data dictionary, transformation lineage, business vocabulary/semantic
• models.
• Data Set Catalogue Planning and Implementation.
• Provisioning and managing meta data in the data stack
• Identifying business rules for complex business metrics and coding calculations for those metrics.
• Semantic model design and development with time series, hierarchical/drill down views for child welfare metrics

Required Skills/Experience:

• Eight (8) years of experience with Multidimensional Model Data Base Design, ETL design and development.
• Eight (8) years of experience with data quality and master data management integration.
• Eight (8) years of experience with ERD's, business vocabulary, data dictionary and database schema mapping.
• Eight (8) years of data analytic implementation projects
• Three (3) years of experience with cloud-based data stack tool and platforms
• Excellent English-speaking skills, written communication skills, and knowledge transfer skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Child Welfare data modeling, case management and analytics
• Experience with data quality and data exchange components of federal requirements for Child Welfare
• management systems
• Prior CCWIS experience
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to build a positive, productive rapport with team member