Data ArchitectLead

Job: Data Architect/Lead

Location: VermontUSA Remote (Needed onsite if necessary)

Job Description

Skills/Expertise Requirements:

For this request knowledge requirements include:

experience as Data Scientist Data Architect or similar

role including experience in both the fields of data design/implementation and

data use/analysis.

Expert knowledge of various data models/structures like hierarchical relational

object structured and unstructured.

Expert knowledge of various (one or more) DBMS and RDBMS like IBMs IMS

or SAGs ADABAS MS SQL Oracle DB2/UDB MariaDB PostgreSQL

MongoDB etc.

Must be selfsufficient and provide thought leadership across data capabilities.

Expert knowledge of data ingestion modeling mastery and management

techniques.

Expert knowledge in ETL tools/utilities architecture designing and modeling

data stage and load schemas.

Proven experience in the use of Data Quality tools and in documenting

prioritizing and resolving data quality related issues.

Proven experience implementing/using MDM solutions to create correlated or

interleaved data.

Proven experience in development of data models ideally in the healthcare

domain.

Proven experience navigating large and complex projects with multiple

stakeholders and project teams.

Strong organizational and leadership skills

Excellent communication skills

Experience preparing executive level presentation materials

Licensing or Certifications for Data Lead (Preferred) include:

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

Master Data Management Certification (MDM)

Certified in Data Protection (CDP)

Certified Public Sector Data Governance Professional (PSDGP)

Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)

AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty

Education Requirements for Data Lead

Bachelors and/or Masters degree in computer science Engineering

Mathematics Statistics Modern Applied Sciences IT Technology Management

Data Architect/Lead Responsibilities

The Data Lead will represent the Agency of Digital Services as a member of the

project team. The role is responsible for ensuring data architecture and design

documentation exists or is produced creating data maps with a migration plan

documented complete with documenting necessary data extraction transformation

cleansing validation verification which are or need be done to ensure data quality and

integrity is maintained that supports a sound reliable repeatable and executable data

migration plan. All data management data quality and data architecture governance

standards and best practices are and need be adhered to throughout the lifecycle for the

project.

Specific activities include the following:

Generate a comprehensive architecture document for all data sources detailing the

database or data model and for each identify all data elements their name origin

data classification attribute format whether a key index the edits verification

or validation done to ensure data quality and integrity.

Assists the project team to describe/document the common data models how

managed maintained and their contribution to downstream applications and

processes.

Partners with business and IT teams to gain consensus and to establish and

implement the migration solution architecture standards policies.

Partners with data governance group technical architects and IT leads in the

selection of all data and the ETL and/or customized and configurable tools to be

proposed/used in data assembly aggregation and subsequent migration.

Provides impact analysis on key data issues to assist with prioritization.

Ensures the architectural vision roadmap and standards for governing modeling

storing delivering and migrating data within the enterprise are adhered to.

Assists to develop and implement data stewardship practices and a shared

responsibility model of data governance

Ensures the migration solution design addresses the data standards and principles

both from a functional and technical requirement perspective.

Leads data migration architecture and data migration design sessions and drives

resolution of design issues as appropriate.

Leads the design of migration solutions to enable the external stakeholder

community to use contributing data both Open Data

and under Data Sharing Agreements.

Prepares documentation including data architecture data migration design

data/system flow charts associated business processes and data migration

plans/planning.

Conducts data architecture and design reviews and issue resolution.

Develops reference data models methods and documentation for the project team

to implement for data correlation and/or interleaving via use of an MDM

transitory and/or staging entities that support migration to a target database.

Works with Data Stewards and technical SMEs to identify Critical Data Elements.

Lead and/or participate in Data Management initiative across business units as

required.

Define and implement policies and processes for data quality data security and

governance for the project.

Develop and implement strategy(s) for Data Mastery and Master Data

Management.

Develop governance process(es) for data stewards to manage Master Data.

Partners directly with IT development teams and technical architects in the

implementation of all applied logical data models.

Ensures data quality and integrity; interprets analyzes and drives resolution of

data problems.

Tests performance of datadriven products.

Raises Data Quality issues to the project team and State leadership.

Attends relevant data meetings where specific knowledge is required.

Conducts reviews to ensure quality standards compliance reusability and ease of

maintenance.

Architects designs and documents a Pilot execution environment to test and

analyze the performance and resource demands of the Data Migration Solution in

accordance with the Data Migration Plan.

Other assignments as required to achieve the successful completion of the project

and associated tasks