This position is now 100% remote.
Complete Description:
The Senior Database Architect will be responsible for Medicaid Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
design, development, implementation, migration, maintenance, and operational activities. The
candidate will closely with Data Governance and Analytics team. Will be one of the key technical
resource for data warehouse projects for various Enterprise Data Warehouse projects and building
critical data marts, data ingestion to Big Data platform for data analytics and exchange with State and
Medicaid partners. This position is a member of Medicaid closely with the Business
Intelligence & Data Analytics team.
Responsibilities:
Participate in Team activities, Design discussions, Stand up meetings and planning Review
with team.
Perform data analysis, data profiling, data cleansing and data quality analysis in various
layers using Database queries both in Big Data platforms.
Eliciting, analyzing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements.
Document business requirements, meeting minutes, and key decisions/actions.
Lead client meetings and sessions with data-driven analysis to clarify requirements and
design decisions.
Perform data gap and impact analysis due to new data addition and existing data changes for
any new business requirements and enhancements.
Follow the organization design standards document, create data mapping specification
document, pseudo codes for the development team(s) and design documents.
Create logical and physical data models.
Review and understand existing business logic used in Hadoop ETL platforms to verify
against the business user needs.
Review PySpark programs that are used to ingest historical and incremental data.
Review SQOOP scripts to ingest historical data from Module Vendor’s databases to Hadoop
IOP, created HIVE tables and Impala view creation scripts for multiple data mart tables.
Assist Business Analyst to create Test Plan, Design Test scenarios, SQL scripts
(Hadoop), test or mockup data, executes the test scripts.
Validate test results and records as well as log and research defects.
Analyze production data issues, report problems and find solutions to fix the issues, if any.
Create incidents and tickets to fix production issues, create Support Requests to deploy code
for development team to UAT environment.
Participate in meetings to continuously upgrade the Functional and technical expertise.
Establish priorities & follow through on projects, paying close attention to detail with minimal
supervision.
Create and present project plan, project status and other dashboards as necessary.
Perform other duties as assigned
EQUIRED Skill Sets:
8+ years Data analysis/architecture experience in Waterfall and Agile Methodology in various
domains (prefer Healthcare) in a data warehouse environment.
Good knowledge of relational database, Hadoop big data platform and tools, data vault and
dimensional model design.
Strong SQL experience (prefer Oracle, Hive and Impala) in creating DDL’s and DML’s in Oracle,
Hive and Impala (minimum of 8-9 years’ experience).
Experience in analysis, design, development, support and enhancements in data warehouse
environment with Cloudera Bigdata Technologies (with a minimum of 8-9 years’ experience in
data analysis, data profiling, data model, data cleansing and data quality analysis in various
layers using Database queries both in Oracle and Big Data platforms).
Experience (minimum of 8-9 years) in working Erwin Data Model tool, hive/impala queries, Unix
commands, scripting and shell scripting etc.
Experience in migrating data from relational database (prefer Oracle) to big data – Hadoop
platform is a plus.
Experience eliciting, analyzing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements.
Ability to document business, functional and non-functional requirements, meeting minutes, and
key decisions/actions.
Experience in identifying data anomalies.
Experience building data sets and familiarity with PHI and PII data.
Ability to establish priorities & follow through on projects, paying close attention to detail with
minimal supervision.
Effective communication, presentation, & organizational skills.
Good experience in working with Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
Effective team player in a fast paced and quick delivery environment.
Required Education: BS/BA degree or combination of education & experience.
DESIRED Skill Sets:
Demonstrate effective leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills
Required excellent written and oral communication skills with technical and business teams.
Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
Stay abreast of current technologies in area of IT assigned
Establish facts and draw valid conclusions
Recognize patterns and opportunities for improvement throughout the entire organization
Ability to discern critical from minor problems and innovate new solutions
test-planning Teamwork sqoop PowerPoint Agile Incident management Data Marts shell Microsoft Visio Communication data-modeling data governance Critical thinking data cleansing Presentation skills data-ingestion Hadoop cloudera-cdp Project management Microsoft Excel Organizational skills Microsoft Word PySpark Innovativeness Unix Data Analyst data-warehouse Problem-solving data-migration data-profiling Test scenarios requirements-management Apache Hive Oracle data-vault Big data impala SQL Analytics ETL RDBMS Leadership