ting redundancy and minimizing complexity in system designs.

The Data Solutions Architect will contribute to the development of the target state architecture by considering stakeholder concerns, business capability requirements, data governance, security, privacy, and data management principles. They will collaborate with other architects, data engineers, and business analysts in evolving metadata stores, CI/CD processes, and larger scale data representation structures. In addition, the Data Solutions Architect will be critically engaged in our cloud transition, including the unification in a single environment of Hadoop and OLAP (Exadata) environments in our cloud environment, leveraging the metadata/data cataloging/data transformation lineage capabilities to support current and growing data governance processes, including a growing explicit privacy data architecture that will go beyond access and obfuscation, and extend to granular PHI segmentation.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into data and system requirements and manage information-centric architecture views to quickly visualize data domains and data interactions across the organization, by eliminating/minimizing data and process redundancy in system designs, reducing complexity of data extraction and exchange among systems.

• Evolve the target state architecture based on stakeholder concerns, business capability requirements, scope, constraints, data governance, security, privacy, and data management principles.

• Participate in early technology demonstrations of core or adjacent technologies to further the desired architecturally significant changes.

• Facilitate an architectural roadmap and influence prioritized backlog that contains key technologies, design standards, frameworks, and guidelines needed to realize that evolving target state architecture.

• Given the dynamic nature of our environment, this role is also in part an engineering position in that the incumbent will participate in hands-on early proof-of-concept demonstration work. Aid in early phase preliminary project scoping, feasibility efforts, technology/data solutions, integration, and automation.

• Facilitating the integration of metadata requirements into the central metadata repository as part of software delivery lifecycle cross enterprise.

• Creation and maintenance of architecture artifacts e-g conceptual data model, current and future state system model, integration, and access model etc.

• Day to day collaboration with Data Engineers, BI Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Product Owners from the Data & Analytics organization, Business and Product Analysts from our Product Innovation organization, and Software Engineering teams.

• Strategic collaboration with Enterprise architecture and engineering, Data Governance, the Privacy Office, and AI and machine learning teams.

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or computer engineering and 8+ years of equivalent work experience.

• 8+ years of experience in a combination of enterprise information or data architecture, and data engineering with at least 3 years in a technical leadership capacity.

• Experience working with data management strategy development especially in regards uses of metadata, data lineage, data security, privacy and data life cycle management.

• Significant understanding of enterprise information management disciplines and practices.

• Basic background in OLAP but with strong knowledge of big data such as Hadoop stack and cloud platforms experience.

• Demonstrated ability to work programmatically in such environments, including but not limited to, automation frameworks utilizing python and jvm based languages.

• Knowledgeable of Google Bigquery platform, Bigtable, BQscript, Dataproc, Cloud composer (Airflow), Vertrx ML, Spark Scala platform.

• Strong knowledge of various Business Intelligence architecture, data warehouse, data marts, data lake, lakehouse, semantic layer and reporting layers.

• Research and data analysis skills.

• Creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.

• Great communication and collaboration skills to work with various levels of enterprise partners.

Keywords: data architect, data mart, data lake, data warehouse, Google Bigquery, Hadoop, big data

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At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $158,676 - $193,937 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

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