Data Architect & Data Services Specialist

Exactech - Gainesville, FL

Full-time

Gainesville, FL

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Data Architect/Data Services Specialist is responsible for enhancing the company's data utilization as a strategic asset to achieve corporate objectives. This role involves designing, developing, and implementing data models for enterprise-level and customer-facing applications, focusing on clinical, customer, and product-related data. The specialist will advocate for data modeling methodologies and best practices while managing ETL jobs and data warehousing using the SAP Data Services platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver long-term strategic goals for clinical and corporate data architecture and standards.
• Establish an overall clinical data infrastructure roadmap and implementation plan.
• Gather and review business requirements and processes, conducting interviews or workshops.
• Translate Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and User Stories into conceptual and logical data models.
• Develop mapping documents that demonstrate data lineage and relationships.
• Establish processes for governing corporate and clinical metadata accuracy and validity.
• Track data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement.
• Conduct clinical data capacity planning and feasibility studies.
• Create strategies for clinical data security, backup, disaster recovery, and archiving.
• Perform visualization design and complete challenging visualization projects independently.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop meaningful clinical and product data reports.
• Liaise with vendors to select products or services that meet company goals.
• Assess governance and stewardship frameworks for managing clinical data.
• Develop and promote data management methodologies and standards within regulatory compliance.
• Lead mapping of clinical data sources and ensure data quality.
• Address clinical data-related problems regarding systems integration.
• Document the data architecture and environment for accuracy.
• Identify opportunities for data reuse, migration, or retirement.
• Assist and support other employees and teams as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in technical leadership, project management, and resource management.
• 7+ years' work experience as a data or information architect.
• 7+ years' work experience as an ETL developer, preferably with SAP Data Services.
• 7 years' experience with modeling tools (e.g., SAP Power Designer, ER/Win, ER/Studio).
• 7 years of relevant data analysis experience with SQL, R, SAS, Python, and data visualization tools (e.g., SAP Business Objects, Tableau).
• 3-5 years' experience working with clinical data in a medical device industry setting.

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of Web services (SOAP, XML, UDDI, WSDL) and open APIs.
• Broad understanding of cloud development technologies and trends.
• Good knowledge of data privacy practices and laws.
• Proven project management experience.
• Advanced Subject Matter Expert in clinical data areas.
• Experience with mission-critical applications optimized for cloud or virtualized environments.
• Strong experience with SDLC, Agile methodologies, Microservices, API, EDI, and cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of emerging trends in PaaS, SaaS, mobile app API, AI, and Machine Learning.
• Object-oriented programming experience (e.g., Java, J2EE, .NET).
• Scripting experience (R, Python).