Data Architect, IT-Remote

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 103,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Data Architect in a remote role. You'll be responsible for bridging business and technology strategies, ensuring the architecture aligns with various departmental initiatives. This position calls for extensive experience in technology domains and strong analytical skills to drive innovation in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant work experience or 11 years total.
• Proven work experience in Data Architect/Data Scientist roles, preferably in healthcare.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of architecture programs.
• Define and communicate shared technical vision across teams.
• Evaluate new technologies to support sub-function goals.

Skills

Data architecture

Business analysis

Technical mastery

Data lifecycle management

Data quality principles

Data security practices

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

NoSQL

Oracle

Azure SQL

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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.
  
  

MUST HAVES:

• 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.
  
  

NICE TO HAVE:

• 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
  
  

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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