Healthcare Data Architect

GoAhead Solutions has an immediate need for a Healthcare Data Architect in Boston, MA.  This would be a Twelve month contract to start out with extension.  This is a hybrid position and will require to work onsite 2 days a week.

Responsibilities:

-Creates and maintains overall data & analytics solutions for applications/products across multiple projects of medium complexity.

-Performs POC to establish standard data & analytics solution patterns that can be leveraged for multiple products and applications.

-Ensures that the design is consistent with the overall enterprise architecture.

-Responsible for securing approvals from review boards for the data & analytics solutions.

-Partners with peer solution architects, engineering, product, operations teams to build feasible & scalable solutions.

-Researches and documents architecturally significant aspects/views of the systems.

-Ensures consistent use of technologies and platforms within data & analytics ecosystems.

-Leads or participates in project planning of architecture and design activities and provides estimates.

-Contributes to creation of our IT Roadmap.

-Responsible for application planning and platform management.

-Establishes enterprise level Data Security, Master Data Management and Reference Data Management guidelines.

-Translates detailed business requirements into optimal technology solutions using AWS services, Lambda, EC2,Glue and other leading open source tools and technologies.

-Manages technical delivery for projects, designs processes, manage and drive execution with help of consultants and associates.

-Diagnose and address complex problems, including performance issues, scale and drive to resolution to meet business initiatives.

-Assist data analysts and end users across all functional areas in identifying long-term, strategic data needs for the enterprise, defining how the data is related to the business processes and developing a conceptual and functional model of the data.

-Assist and advocate for bringing new technologies for data management, governance, and usage.

-Work hands on with emerging technologies during software evaluations, PoCs and pilots.

-Ensure that data is secure and protected from unauthorize access or modification.

Required Technical Skills:

-Minimum 8 years of experience in data, analytics, AI/ML, insights, business intelligence, data warehouse products, platforms and applications.

-Minimum 5 years of experience in working as Solution/Data Architect on cloud platforms (AWS is highly desirable).

-Minimum 4 years of experience with ETL/ELT design and development using tools like Talend, Informatica, AWS Glue, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) or equivalent.

-Minimum 5 years of experience in database architecture using relational SQL (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL), and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).

-Minimum 4 years of experience with programming languages such as Node.js, Python, Java or Scala.

-Minimum 3 years of experience with building applicating with serverless architecture on AWS platforms using Athena, Glue, EC2, Lamda, Kenesis etc..

-Minimum 2 years of experience with large-scale data processing platforms such as Spark, EMR, and/or HPC computing experience with e.g. Apache Aurora, Slurm.

-Minimum 4 years of solutioning experience in AWS Cloud environment leveraging multiple services for storage, processing, analyzing large volume of data.

-Strong database architecture, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to handle ambiguous and evolving requirements.

-Minimum 2 years of experience with building solutions using tools like Vizio, Draw.io and Miro.

-Experience working with RESTful API and general service-oriented architectures.

-Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technologies is desirable.

-AWS Solution Architect certification (associate & above) is highly desirable.

-Healthcare domain knowledge is a huge plus.

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.