Senior Cloud Data Architect

KPG99 - Quincy, MA

Full-time - Senior

Quincy, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for designing and implementing a Local Public Health Data Platform that serves as a crucial operational and reporting interface for local and regional boards of health. This role involves creating and maintaining end-to-end data architectures, ensuring compliance with data governance policies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop scalable cloud data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop architecture of cloud-based data management systems.
• Create data models including data storage, access, and usage patterns for cloud environments.
• Define data security policies, authentication, and authorization mechanisms for cloud-based platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect highly scalable, highly available, and highly performant cloud data solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend new cloud products and services for efficient data storage and processing.
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies and best practices in the cloud.
• Implement data management and data governance processes for cloud data.
• Conduct thorough analysis and documentation of cloud data architecture strategies and designs.
• Establish regular overall system performance assessment processes and action plans.
• Provide direction for the design and development of the data layers including review of ETL requirements.
• Lead team design sessions and facilitate decisions.
• Integrate data leveraging Snowflake, Informatica IICS, SQL, Mulesoft, and Python code to solve complex use cases.
• Ensure timely delivery of solutions meeting requirements and expectations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Data Architecture, data warehousing, data modeling, ETL, enterprise and business information system architectures, and system engineering.
• Thorough knowledge and implementation experience of data warehouse and Enterprise Data architecture principles.
• 3-5 years of experience architecting/developing Cloud-based (AWS) data solutions.
• 5+ years of Cloud database platform experience such as Snowflake.
• Experience in creating, reviewing, and maintaining end-to-end data architectures.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable explaining/proposing solutions to technical stakeholders, vendors, and business consumers.
• Proficiency with Unix, Linux, and shell scripting.
• Experience working with a large, multi-terabyte enterprise data platform in Cloud.
• Experience with system administration, database administration, storage architectures, backup & recovery, and networking.
• Informatica (IICS) ETL and Mulesoft experience.
• Salesforce experience.
• Experience working with highly sensitive health care information and familiarity with HIPAA and other data privacy controls.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Tableau for data visualization.
• Familiarity with decentralized data architectures (Data Mesh).

Benefits

• Long-term contract opportunity.
• Hybrid work environment.