Remote Sr. Data Architect - Healthcare

Description:

• The Sr. Data Architect role is a Contract to Hire position that will play a pivotal role in integrating diverse data sources into production-ready data models to support organizational goals.
• This position requires strong collaboration with business and technical teams to align with business strategies and objectives, ensuring requirements are fulfilled throughout the entire data and analytics lifecycle.
• Key responsibilities include gathering and understanding business and technical requirements, translating them into actionable data architecture plans.
• The role involves designing and implementing multidimensional and tabular data models to support analytics initiatives.
• The Sr. Data Architect will define and enforce best practices for database design, ETL/ELT development, and optimization.
• The individual will lead and direct the development of ETL processes, ensuring adherence to optimization and scheduling best practices.
• Architectural designs will be created to guide solution development across systems, applications, and processes.
• The role includes documenting solution architecture and performing design and analysis work to achieve business objectives.
• Collaboration across teams is essential to drive business impact through technical solutions, aligning infrastructure and solutions with business success metrics.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's Degree in a related field with 7+ years of relevant experience or 11+ years of total experience is required.
• Proven experience in roles such as Data Architect, Data Scientist, or Data Analyst is mandatory, with experience in healthcare or insurance services.
• Expertise in data warehousing, data architecture, data vault, and business intelligence is essential.
• Cloud-based project implementation experience, preferably with Microsoft Azure or Snowflake, is required.
• Knowledge of data pipelines and modern data platforms is necessary.
• Proficiency in enterprise data management technologies, including ETL tools, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, data lakes, and master data management solutions, is required.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools like Power BI is preferred.
• An understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality principles, and security best practices is necessary.
• Preferred experience includes Microsoft Azure BI and Analytics Stack and Snowflake, as well as hands-on experience with data warehouse modeling methodologies.
• Nice to have skills include predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning experience, familiarity with real-time and large-batch data pipelines, and knowledge of FHIR standards.
• Required competencies include payer industry-specific knowledge of business processes, strong organizational skills, excellent communication skills, the ability to work independently while fostering team collaboration, and knowledge of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies.

Benefits:

• The position offers a Flexible Time Off Policy.
• Employees receive insurance benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• The company provides 100% company-paid short and long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Life insurance and AD&D insurance are also 100% company-paid for employees.
• An employee assistance program is provided at no cost to employees.
• Retirement plans with company match are available.
• The company offers annual training and certification reimbursement.
• A performance-based incentive program is included.
• Referral bonuses are available for employees.