Data Architect

$90,459 - $142,438/Yr

Intermountain Health - Des Moines, IA

Full-time - Mid Level

Des Moines, IA

Hospitals

About the position

The Data Architect/Data Engineer at Intermountain Health is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining data infrastructures, combining expertise in relational databases, cloud technologies, and big data tools. This staff-level position focuses on creating scalable and secure data solutions, integrating enterprise data, ensuring data quality, and optimizing data access across systems. The role involves working on moderate to complex projects, developing data models, pipelines, and warehouses, and collaborating with senior architects for guidance.

Responsibilities

• Records detailed logical and physical data models in the information repository and coordinates the publication and maintenance of these models.
• Facilitates database design sessions and translates business requirements into logical and physical system designs for moderately complex projects.
• Coordinates the physical database design and implementation process for moderately complex projects.
• Designs the optimal data presentation environment for the customer and works with various reporting tools.
• Coordinates with specific database performance monitoring and tuning tasks including the design of optimization and indexing schemes for moderately complex projects.
• Develops, tests and implements ETL (extract, transformation, and load) routines.
• Documents business requirements and essential functionality requirements for in-house developments.
• Ensures proper integration with existing Intermountain Healthcare’s data, standards, and business processes.
• Provides leadership for moderately complex projects through development of project work plans, recommendations for optimal utilization of resources, milestone tracking, and coordination of project team efforts.
• Keeps management and customers informed of progress and exceptions.
• Assists in the development and implementation of system backup, recovery, and support plans.
• Addresses the customer needs, manages expectations and ensures system-wide integration.
• Participates in the technical review process of designs completed by other designers.
• Develops, documents, and delivers complex ad-hoc queries of production data as requested by business users.
• Consults with the business users that are performing queries. Works effectively with clients and staff to determine needs, specifications, feasibility, and project priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Statistics or closely related field.
• Three years experience in database design, development, and business intelligence technologies.
• Demonstrated high degree of flexibility and motivation in an aggressively changing environment.
• Demonstrated general knowledge of SQL (structured query language).
• Demonstrated interpersonal communication skills to promote and advance business intelligence in collaboration with customers.
• Demonstrated project management skills, customer service skills, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with highly sensitive and confidential material and adhere to data security and confidentiality protocols and procedures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of general data warehousing concepts and understands the primary differences between On-line Transaction Processing and Decision Support systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake for real-time and batch data processing.
• Proficiency in data streaming technologies such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Azure Event Hubs.
• Experience working with APIs to retrieve and integrate data from external systems.
• Experience developing APIs to provide data as a product.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python and PySpark for data engineering tasks.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT processes and tools, including both traditional and cloud-native solutions.
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with stakeholders and teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package covering wellness programs.
• Support for living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.