OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

At Sevita, we believe that everyone deserves to live well. For more than 50 years, our team members have provided home and community-based health care for adults, children, and their families across the United States. Our extraordinary team offers innovative, quality services and support that lead to growth and new opportunities for the people we serve and for our employees.

 

 

SUMMARY

The Lead Data Architect is responsible for defining the enterprise data, analytics, integration, master data management and business intelligence current, transitional and target state architectures. This role works with the data architecture, strategy and execution roadmap in close collaboration with business and IT service owners and delivery teams. Additionally, this role leads a team of architects to ensure that solutions align with the target architecture.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.

 

Strategy & Roadmap

• Translates strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, associated metadata, common business vocabulary, and taxonomies to be used to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.
• Engages with business functions, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects.
• Applies business strategy and enterprise architecture principles while driving data strategy, balancing short term and long term needs to ensure scalable, reliable, and extendable data architecture that can evolve with changing needs.
• Leads the Enterprise Data Architecture and related technical strategies in the areas of data management, BI analytics, advanced analytics, master data management, data quality, transformations, enrichment, and data integration.
• Defines data/information architecture standards, policies and procedures for the organization, structure, attributes, and nomenclature of data elements, and applies accepted data content standards to technology projects.

 

Architecture

• Works with the Director of BI and Data in translating business vision, strategy and objectives into an enterprise data architecture.
• Develops, owns and communicates the enterprise data architecture artifacts for integrations, analytics, business intelligence and master data management solution architectures showing the following views:
  • Abstraction Level - Conceptual, Logical
  • Scope - Enterprise, Domain, Capability/Process
  • Time - Current, Transitional, Target
• Drives the development of the enterprise data, integration, analytics and business intelligence technology strategy and roadmap which include:
  • Gaps between current and target states
  • Recommended initiatives
  • Strategy and timeline for implementing initiatives
• Understands the company's data and how it is used, identifies its source (system of record, gold copy source) and designs its movement across the enterprise.
• Guides solution architects in promoting best practices, using reference architectures, ensuring standardization across solution architectures, and reflecting the enterprise data and integration architecture strategy in their solutions.

 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Manages assigned personnel.  Completes performance evaluations, orientation, and training.  Makes decisions on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions.  Resolves employee problems within position responsibilities.

 

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required for the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job. 

 

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering or related field required.
• 15+ years of experience architecting data management, analytics, business intelligence and application integration solutions.
• 3-5 years of experience in building data strategy for a large global company required
• Experience using Azure PaaS and SaaS services and Snowflake for building data management solutions.
• Experience using and/or extensive knowledge of various technologies in the areas of data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), data storage (lifecycle management, archiving), data warehousing, data governance (taxonomy, stewardship, data quality, metadata management, lineage), master data management (master and reference data), data integration, data migration, data operations (error handling, monitoring, security), business intelligence (reporting, dash boarding) and advanced analytics (predictive analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence).
• Experience using and/or extensive knowledge of various application integration technologies such as cloud integration, SaaS integration, API management, enterprise service bus, messaging, streaming, event management, managed file transfer, micro services, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience thinking strategically and applying abstract architectural concepts at an enterprise level.
• Experience working simultaneously on multiple large, complex projects with minimal supervision.

 

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Expert with SQL Server and Snowflake
• Expert SQL, T-SQL and PL/SQL knowledge against a variety of databases like SQL Server, Oracle, and Hyperion.
• Expert data mining and data analysis
• Outstanding SQL, PL/SQL and T-SQL experience
• Should feel comfortable with relational design with high transaction databases
• Ability to navigate SQL; inner joins, outer joins, group by’s, sub queries etc.
• Knowledge of Salesforce and Dayforce is a plus
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively convey architectural concepts to business and technology peers as well as senior management.
• Effective leadership, influencing and negotiating skills.

 

Other Requirements:

• Travel as needed

 

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work.  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.  Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

 

 

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.
 

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law