Data Architect, IT-Remote

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field with 7 years of relevant work experience OR 11 years total relevant work experience.
• Holds deep technical mastery and business knowledge across a technology domain.
• Strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business, clinical and political factors.
• Has a broad background implementing different architectures to meet differing needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and possesses good presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to direct the implementation of diverse technologies in a complex organization.
• Diplomacy and interpersonal skills to lead others to provide inputs for the purpose of sharing with customers, partners, and higher management on vision and need for key technologies.
• Demonstrated experiences innovating beyond the state of the art.
• Maximizing technical efficiency and setting technical direction.

MUST HAVES:

• Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst or similar role preferable in health care and insurance services. 
• Demonstrates Payer industry specific knowledge of business and processes
• Experience with enterprise data management technologies including data mining and segmentation techniques, data warehouses, data lakes, ETL tools, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, and master data management solutions.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g.  Power BI ) 
• Understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality principles, and data security best practices
• Preferred experience with Microsoft Azure BI and Analytics Stack including Azure SQL and related technologies
• Preferred experience with Snowflake
• Proven ability to work in distributed database and systems
• Experience translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).
• Ability to articulate the business impact of IT infrastructure and solutions that translates technical performance into business success metrics.
• Highly driven and self-motivated to exceed expectations.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrated ability to collaborate lead in a team-based environment.
• Strong organizational skills – must be able to design, lead and manage teams composed of stakeholders across diverse teams/domains
• Demonstrates good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Predictive, Data Mining, & Machine Learning experience
• Hands-on experience with data warehouse modeling methodologies (Kimball, Inmon, DataVault, etc.)
• Experience dealing with real-time and large batch data pipelines
• Understanding of FHIR standards

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UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran