Data Architecture Director

$165,000 - $230,000/Yr

Unclassified

Full-time - Senior

Remote

About the position

Leidos QTC Health Services is seeking a Data Architecture Director to spearhead a significant modernization initiative aimed at transforming the way we build software. This transformation involves a shift from monolithic applications to a more agile architecture utilizing microservices, automation, and cloud technologies. As the Director of Data Architecture, you will play a pivotal role in guiding Leidos QTC Health Services through this transformation by leading a team of data professionals. Your responsibilities will include collaborating closely with both business and IT stakeholders to understand the enterprise landscape and current challenges, designing innovative data and business intelligence solutions, and ensuring proper implementation with delivery teams. You will also act as a change agent, coach, mentor, and facilitator within the organization. In this role, you will lead, develop, coach, and manage a team of data professionals, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality deliverables across multiple projects. You will engage with senior business stakeholders to translate business requirements into a long-term data architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps that align with our growth goals and meet the data needs of employees and customers. Your leadership will extend to the design of enterprise-class data solutions that are performant, scalable, secure, and resilient. You will also be responsible for defining data architecture frameworks, ensuring data quality across the enterprise, and creating executive-level presentations to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Staying current with industry trends and best practices will be essential as you promote the use of shared platforms and services within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, coach, and manage a team of data professionals in modernizing Leidos QTC Health Service's data architecture.
• Ensure timely delivery of high quality deliverables across multiple projects, providing supervision and guidance while empowering team members and load-balancing their work.
• Engage with senior business stakeholders and translate business requirements into long-term data architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps to best serve our growth goals and satisfy employees and customers data needs.
• Lead the design of enterprise-class data solutions that are performant, scalable, secure, and resilient.
• Lead the analysis and definition of data architecture frameworks, including reference data, metadata, master data, data modeling, SQL and No-SQL database design, data warehousing architecture, and business intelligence and analytics.
• Ensure data quality across the enterprise, from applications to data warehouses/marts, to business reports and dashboards.
• Create and deliver executive level presentations and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Create and communicate enterprise data principles, guidelines, standards, and reference architectures.
• Promote the use of shared platforms and services.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, emerging technologies, and major vendors and proactively apply that to improve our data architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 14 to 20 years of progressive professional experience in data engineering and architecture.
• 3 to 5 years of experience leading and managing data teams.
• Strong experience leading data teams and modernization efforts.
• Demonstrated track record in architecting, implementing and maintaining enterprise data solutions.
• Solid knowledge in all major areas of data engineering and architecture: SQL and NoSQL DBs, data lakes/warehouses, ETL, master data management, analytics, BI, and ML/AI.
• Data modeling, mining, managing, warehousing, cleansing, visualization and reporting.
• Data security, authentication/authorization, encryption, privacy, scalability, and resiliency.
• Experience with AWS, SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, and agile/scrum methodologies.
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, messaging, logging and monitoring, and integration is a plus.
• Experience in vendor platform evaluations including criteria and scorecard development.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical, organizational, and task management skills.
• Strong leadership skills to include personnel management, collaboration, communication and presentation, ability to influence others, strategic thinking, and accountability.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS certification highly desirable.
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement