Senior Data Architect

Summary

Join Data Ideology as a Senior Data Architect in a contract-to-hire role, playing a key part in integrating diverse data sources into production-ready data models. You will collaborate with business and technical teams, ensuring requirements are met throughout the data and analytics lifecycle. This position requires strong data warehousing, data architecture, and business intelligence expertise, along with experience in healthcare or insurance. The role involves designing and implementing data models, leading ETL development, and creating architectural designs. Remote work is offered, and the position includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field with 7+ years of relevant experience or 11+ years of total experience
• Proven experience in roles such as Data Architect, Data Scientist, or Data Analyst, with mandatory experience in healthcare or insurance services
• Expertise in data warehousing, data architecture, data vault, and business intelligence
• Cloud-based project implementation experience (Microsoft Azure, Snowflake preferred)
• Knowledge of data pipelines and modern data platforms
• Proficiency in enterprise data management technologies (ETL tools, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, data lakes, and master data management solutions)
• Familiarity with data visualization tools like Power BI
• Understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality principles, and security best practices
• Demonstrates payer industry-specific knowledge of business processes
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to lead teams across diverse domains
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Ability to work independently while fostering team collaboration
• Knowledge of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies

Responsibilities

• Gather and understand business and technical requirements, translating them into actionable data architecture plans
• Design and implement multidimensional and tabular data models to support analytics initiatives
• Define and enforce best practices for database design, ETL/ELT development, and optimization
• Lead and direct the development of ETL processes, ensuring adherence to optimization and scheduling best practices
• Create architectural designs to guide solution development across systems, applications, and processes
• Document solution architecture and perform design and analysis work to achieve business objectives
• Collaborate across teams to drive business impact through technical solutions, aligning infrastructure and solutions with business success metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience in Microsoft Azure BI and Analytics Stack and Snowflake
• Hands-on experience with data warehouse modeling methodologies
• Predictive analytics, data mining, and machine learning experience
• Familiarity with real-time and large-batch data pipelines
• Knowledge of FHIR standards

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off Policy
• Insurance (medical, dental, vision) for employees
• 100% company paid - short and long-term disability insurance for employees
• 100% company paid - life insurance and AD&D insurance for employees
• 100% company paid – employee assistance program
• Retirement plans with company match
• Training and Certification Reimbursement annually
• Performance-based incentive program
• Referral Bonuses