Data Modeler

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and sustain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that align with the VFMP Modernization Portfolio.

• Generate thorough database design documentation, which includes entity relationship diagrams, data models, data dictionaries, metadata definitions, and data flow diagrams.

• Assess business requirements and convert them into scalable, efficient, and maintainable database designs.

• Analyze and configure database technologies to ensure user requirements are met in line with system capabilities, performance goals, and operational necessities.

• Specify suitable database structures, file organization, indexing strategies, partitioning methods, and techniques for storage optimization.

• Establish and enforce database security, data integrity, and access control processes that comply with VHA and Federal information security standards.

• Plan, coordinate, and assist in the migration and conversion of legacy databases to modernized systems while maintaining data quality and integrity.

• Work together with application development, systems engineering, and EDI teams to guarantee that data models support provider, eligibility, claims, and related transaction processing.

• Facilitate modernization initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency across high-volume business operations, including:

• - Beneficiary enrollment

• - Claims adjudication

• - Appeals processing

• - Benefits coordination

• - Care coordination

• - Pharmacy support

• - Nurse review

• - Processing of non-standard customer requests

• Ensure that data models facilitate modernization goals by supporting:

• - Inventory management within established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• - Processing timeliness as operational volumes increase

• - High levels of data accuracy and integrity

• - Enterprise performance measurement and reporting

• - User-friendly and maintainable solutions for VFMP and VHA

• Collaborate with Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), business analysts, solution architects, database administrators, and vendors to ensure a consistent enterprise data architecture.

• Identify opportunities to enhance data quality, minimize redundancy, standardize data definitions, and strengthen enterprise data governance.

• Support testing, validation, and quality assurance activities to confirm that data models operate correctly within enterprise applications.

• Document data standards, modeling conventions, database architecture, and migration procedures to facilitate long-term system maintenance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree

• Must possess practical field experience within the last year, with at least four (4) years of federal healthcare work experience.

• Experience in data modeling methodologies, encompassing conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.

• Prior experience with VHA or other Federal healthcare information systems and modernization projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Training & Development