Healthcare Data Architect

TEKsystems - Honolulu, HI

Full-time - Mid Level

Honolulu, HI

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Architect in Healthcare at TEKsystems is a pivotal role responsible for maintaining a comprehensive view and roadmap of interconnected technologies across the organization. This position requires regular communication with various functional groups and business units, providing cross-functional support for IS teams, including data center environments, IT networks, unified communications, desktop support, and cloud enablement teams. The Data Architect will influence the information strategy by partnering with business unit leadership to rationalize the information value chain, thereby maximizing the value of information assets through their creation, access, and use. In this role, the Data Architect will foster value creation using the organization's data assets and the external data ecosystem. This includes aiding value creation through data exploitation, envisioning data-enabled strategies, and enabling business outcomes through analytics, data governance, and enterprise information policy. The architect will assess the benefits and risks of information using tools like business capability models to visualize what information is most critical to the organization based on its defined business strategy. The Data Architect will also enhance decision-making by providing a future-state view of the information landscape, unencumbered by specific data implementation details. They will enable effective data and analytics governance by suggesting who can take what actions with what information and under what circumstances. Additionally, the architect will conduct business information modeling, manage risk by defining data classifications, and ensure that the architecture aligns with enterprise strategies and business outcomes. Collaboration is key in this role, as the Data Architect will work closely with data and analytics leaders, data science specialists, information management staff, and business domain stakeholders. They will provide consulting support within projects to ensure architectural alignment and establish relationships with business partners and the IT organization to meet user needs and influence strategic initiatives. Keeping up to date with technology trends is essential to enable evolving business and operational models, and the architect will also identify governance activities required for regulatory compliance and architecture assurance.

Responsibilities

• Influence information strategy by partnering with business unit leadership and rationalizing the information value chain.
• Maximize value derived from data and analytics by fostering value creation using the organization's data assets and external data ecosystem.
• Assess the benefits and risks of information using tools such as business capability models to create an information-centric view.
• Enhance decision making by providing a future-state view of the information landscape using business information models.
• Enable effective data and analytics governance by suggesting actions and circumstances for information access.
• Conduct business information modeling, creating and managing various forms of business information models.
• Aid in defining data classifications and data zoning to manage information assets effectively.
• Ensure architecture is used to identify, prioritize, and execute data and analytic initiatives aligned with enterprise strategies.
• Secure data and analytic assets by analyzing security requirements and collaborating with the CISO.
• Improve enterprise information management performance through solutions like master data management and data integration.
• Collaborate with data and analytics leaders, data science specialists, and business domain stakeholders to provide data solutions.
• Provide consulting support within projects to ensure architectural alignment and establish relationships with business partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Four (4) years of IT architecture and design experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two (2) years of experience working on the architecture of cloud environments.
• Five (5) years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines such as information system design, data management programs, or system integration.
• Knowledge of common information architecture frameworks and information models.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with data exploitation and envisioning data-enabled strategies.
• Familiarity with analytics governance and enterprise information policy.
• Understanding of regulatory compliance and architecture assurance processes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions
• Voluntary Life Insurance & AD&D for employee and dependents
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Vacation or Sick Leave