AWS Data Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create information architecture to facilitate an operational data store for data interchange throughout the Medicaid enterprise.

• Design and develop entirely AWS cloud-native application components.

• Construct solution prototypes to showcase the suitability and interoperability of selected components, establishing patterns for the implementation team to adopt.

• Evaluate data architectures for effectiveness, efficiency, and alignment with the enterprise's objectives.

• Formulate comprehensive strategies for implementing and remediating non-compliance with data architecture standards.

• Devise an architectural strategy for metadata management, encompassing tooling and governance of metadata.

• Oversee metadata models that bolster data quality and mastering processes.

• Create and sustain Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models at both the enterprise level and for specific data domains within Medicaid (Provider, Member, Claim, Reference).

• Review data models with business stakeholders and secure approval from the data governance committee.

• Define and uphold business rules for data elements in collaboration with business owners and the data governance committee.

• Investigate emerging technologies, data modeling methodologies, and systems for information management.

• Conduct data mapping between canonical models and data formats (both input and output), including X12 EDI, FHIR, and various structured JSON, XML, or proprietary formats.

• Assist database administrators, network designers, and IT personnel in designing and managing the organization’s data infrastructure and overall data strategy.

• Engage in Data Governance Committee meetings as a representative of the architecture team.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, such as solution architects, software developers, database administrators, design analysts, and information modeling experts, to identify project capabilities, requirements, and timelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information management, data science, statistics, public health, health informatics, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• Expertise in object-oriented design principles and software design patterns.

• Experience with the following AWS services: Glue, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CodeCommit, EC2, SNS, SQS, KMS, VPC, and IAM.

• Background in working with data models and relational, transactional, and NoSQL databases.

• Minimum of five years of experience with healthcare data, especially in Medicare, Medicaid, Health and Human Services, medical claims, and financial management.

• Familiarity with federal, state, and organizational regulations that protect Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

• At least five years of experience using UML 2.0 and Archimate notations.

• Innovative problem-solver with excellent communication abilities and a collaborative approach.

• Experience utilizing data visualization tools.

• Proficient in designing data warehouses and domain-specific data models.

• Skilled in modeling transactional data stores using both relational and document data patterns.

• Experience in modeling data for REST APIs.

• Knowledge of data transformation and Domain-Driven Design.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.