Business Data Architect

Position: Business Data Architect
Location: Remote - must work EST hours
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months to start
Job Description:

• Business Data Architect is a role that blends the disciplines of data architecture, business architecture and business analysis.
• This role is imperative for an efficient and effective transformative program at the organization in analyzing our current state and a map to drive to a future state to meet the data requirements and value stream recognition for data and analytics.
• The individuals in this role are responsible for leading the transformation of workstreams and serve as the bridge/liaison between business operations, IT and the data reporting teams to translate business capture needs, current business/clinical processes into data management principles and models.
• The individual in this role will ensure a conscious, frictionless and proactive approach to process and data changes as it relates to the work conducted in our Epic ecosystem.
• This position is part of the central analytics team with broad exposure to systems such as the Epic platform, along with clinical workflow and business processes.
• Key partners include clinicians, project managers, analysts, and developers of various domain expertise.
• The BDA will be responsible for informing the design, build, and support of implementation of Epic design in adherence to a robust data strategy for Enterprise-wide operations and downstream analytics.
• This individual will be an individual contributor/leader within a larger team with the goal of developing a sound data framework on which the organization can confidently drive clinical operations and derive analytic insights from subsequent data outputs ultimately fostering a data-driven culture.
• Key responsibilities will include partnering closely with a variety of analytics consumers and business stakeholders to gather business requirements that will inform the modeling of data sources and foundational tables.
• This includes documentation of the business processes that create data as well as system business requirements and functional requirements.
• The architect will serve as a trusted analytics partner in key clinical and operational workstreams across the entire enterprise.
• Facilitate discovery sessions with key stakeholder of current state Epic build and data models and database design as well as the identification of ideal/target future state build with an output of business/functional requirements documentation and corresponding business process documentation.
• Research and evaluate, document database and models and implementation information and determine possible limitations and downstream impact of changes.
• Compare and analyze current state data models, database design and system implementation to desired organizational vision.
• Present detailed reports to present to leadership on efforts and impact of recommended remediation efforts.
• Create critical deliverables by workstream, such as business process maps, business and functional requirements, data lineage of upstream/downstream applications for critical data elements and an Architecture Decision Document.
• Provide a traceability matrix of key decisions to be made by leaders with a valuation of the trade-offs of decisions made.
• Translate business requirements and business operation practices into data collection and management processes.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Eight (8)+ years of experience in data warehousing with designing multi-layered data warehouses and data marts using both relational and dimensional modeling techniques.
• Eight (8)+ years of experience in integrating data both at logical & physical levels.
• Eight (8)+ years working with multiple DBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, etc).
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Assertive (yet diplomatic) personality and the ability to handle change, excellent written and oral communication.
• Strong understanding of Data Governance concepts, data lineage and meta-data management.
• Strong consultative, presentation and conceptualization skills; proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Proficiency in Erwin, Toad, or other Data Modeling tools.
• Strong project management skills.
• Thorough understanding of data architecture and modeling; proven experience to elicit requirements and develop constructs in conceptual and logical data models to support business.
• Documentation of technical and business needs.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with data manipulation and statistical analyses/model development (SQL, R, Python).

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Health Science, Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Business, or related quantitative fields.

Preferred Education:

• Master s degree.

Required Certifications & Licensure:

• Certification in Epic Clarity data model and other Epic clinical or financial data models.

Preferred Certifications & Licensure:

• EPIC Cogito PM certification.