Temp - Data Architect

TEMP - Data Architect (ITS Architect II)

Department(s): ITS - Enterprise Architecture & Innovation
Reports to: Sr. Manager II, Information Technology Services (Enterprise Architecture)
Salary: $50 - $78
Duration: up to 6 months

***Partial Telework

Job Summary

The ITS Architect II, Data Architect, is an experienced technologist/subject matter expert (SME) that leverages their technical experience with proven strategic and tactical technical leadership to lead and deliver digital solutions for us. The Data Architect will play a key role in taking our data estate to the next generation. We are leading the journey to a data driven organization and developing cloud-based data platforms that enable fast decision making and analytical capabilities for health care services. The incumbent will be responsible for designing and executing data distribution frameworks, data streaming, vendor evaluation, cloud warehouse evaluation and for developing data catalog and observability systems. The incumbent will define the enterprise data blueprint for us to bring together thought leadership, trends and insights and to partner with internal and external stakeholders to architect and build solutions that make a difference for our members, providers and staff. The incumbent will work closely with management to ensure open communication and collaboration regarding tactical and strategic initiatives, changes, projects, planning and overall accomplishments. Additionally, the incumbent will work closely with vendors and technology partners to support all Information Technology Services (ITS) Data Architecture services for the organization.

Position Responsibilities:

• Leads the Enterprise Data Architecture team in the implementation of robust and scalable solutions that support our digital data transformation.
• Assists in ongoing modernization and data migration efforts.
• Owns Data Architecture and develops a data engineering framework with a cloud native approach.
• Understands the current landscape of data and provides recommendations on building future data products with best-in-class components, frameworks and design patterns.
• Establishes data pipeline patterns and provides recommendations and tradeoffs for enterprise data needs.
• Analyzes and influences end-to-end data and integration design for key business domains.
• Architects and designs solutions for data quality, security/privacy, reliability and data governance.
• Embraces and influences technology platform thinking and executes architecture principles of security, scale, uptime and reliability.
• Contributes to and implements the architecture strategy for enterprise data management.
• Provides Data Architecture oversight to ensure services are implemented in line with business objectives, security, and cost controls and Data Architecture best practices.
• Provides input into the development of a 3-5-year target enterprise Data Architecture based on business roadmaps, current state assessment, industry trends and research agenda.
• Creates a robust implementation roadmap to reach target date defined above with a focus on maximizing business value and minimizing disruption risks.
• Works directly with cross-functional ITS teams and business partners on technology solutions to solve business challenges.
• Establishes an enterprise Data Architecture “Center of Excellence” that will ensure and maintain best practices, performance and governance of the CalOptima Health data platform.
• Researches, evaluates and recommends new technologies, tools and frameworks for high volume data processing.
• Coaches and mentors engineering teams to raise collective technical expertise.
• Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical timelines, costs and risks.
• Contributes to architecture guiding principles, development standards and training.
• Creates and maintains an intuitive and easily consumable knowledge hub for development teams.
• Leads efforts of internal stakeholders and third-party vendors, as well as assures that integrated solutions are provided to meet the organization's data needs.
• Oversees the activities of the Data Architecture function to ensure consistently improved solutions of all implementations.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Possesses the Ability To:

• Collaborate actively with engineering teams to help services achieve next levels of scale and address current limitations.
• Help deploy and troubleshoot application data pipelines across various architectural environments that will vary by stakeholder from legacy to modern including application servers, queues, application programming interface (API) gateways, databases or cloud-based equivalents.
• Research modern data management practices and platforms and provide thought leadership to the ITS organization.
• Prototype initial enterprise data implementations of key services and architectural patterns.
• Seek opportunities to modernize Data Architecture via active projects, pilots, as well as advocating for opportunities to improve technical debt.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships and achieve broader organizational goals.
• Act as a champion for the Enterprise Data Architecture function and the value it provides to both the business and ITS stakeholders.
• Develop enterprise data strategies, architecture, quality, documentation and standards.
• Assist the team with varying levels of technical, analytical and business abilities to ensure effective use of everyone’s skills to achieve team goals and objectives.
• Be detail oriented and provide specific direction to the team and colleagues.
• Have strong interpersonal skills and effectively negotiate.
• Define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise Data Architecture value.
• Perform well under pressure.
• Guide the team in the organization and delivery of Data Architecture support documentation to team members or the business.
• Work cooperatively at all levels in a matrix environment.
• Learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions in the Azure Cloud/information technology (IT) space.
• Balance long-term strategic objectives and the short-term tactical imperatives.
• Solve problems with innovative ideas to affect change in the CalOptima Health ecosystem.
• Manage and coordinate enterprise information use, corporate data access design, metadata management and distributed/replicated data approaches to ensure consistency, timeliness, data lineage, data quality and availability of master data throughout the enterprise.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with CalOptima Health’s leadership and staff.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Utilize computer and appropriate software (e.g., Microsoft Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) and job-specific applications/systems to produce correspondence, charts, spreadsheets and/or other information applicable to the position assignment.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related technical discipline required.
• 6 years of progressive, applicable, technical experience in information technology required, including cloud architecture.
• 5 years of wide-ranging data experience working with and influencing multiple teams required.
• 4 years of experience building and/or architecting enterprise data solutions, data pipelines and data stores required.
• 3 years of experience in reviewing existing data platforms/processes and refactor for improvement vs starting over.
• 2 years of experience in working with variety of architectural principles like hub and spoke, bus and event driven software architectures.
• Demonstrated experience designing Data Architecture(s) for business intelligence/analytical usage required.
• Hands on experience in designing and building data engineering solutions required.
• Demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong influence management skills required.
• A thorough understanding of application technology stacks and platform layers is required.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the position such as those listed above.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience leading large scale global data warehousing and analytics projects.
• Experience building out complete Data Architectures for large enterprise environments (large companies, not pieces) and doing so multiple times.
• Experience building, architecting, designing and implementing highly distributed enterprise data solutions (preferably Azure platform).
• Experience with any of the reporting tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau and/or Structured Query Language (SQL) Server Reporting Services.
• Experience in application development, network infrastructure, security or data.
• Managed care/health care experience.
• Strong vendor management experience.
• Proven track record of delivering scalable, resource-intensive, integrated and operational analytical solutions.
• Proficient practitioner of Python development.
• Basic understanding of DevOps concepts and scripting.
• Understanding of Data Lake solutions.

Knowledge of:

• Data architecture.
• Design and development of object-oriented, real-time messaging and relational database management applications.
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automation tools like Azure DevOps.
• Managing and migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• Technology solutions and an understanding of large-scale computing solutions and the enterprise technology buying and evaluation process.
• Cloud technology and development stack (preferably Azure platform).

At Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC, we firmly believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our organization and we are happy to offer the following benefits:

• Competitive pay & weekly paychecks
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Awards and recognition programs
• Benefit eligibility is dependent on employment status.

Sunshine Enterprise USA is an “Equal Opportunity Employer—Minorities, Females, Veterans and Disabled Persons”