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At Boston Children’s Hospital, the quality of our care – and our inclusive hospital working environment – lies in the diversity of our people. With patients from local communities and 160 countries around the world, we’re committed to reflecting the spectrum of their cultures, while opening doors of opportunity for our team. Here, different talents pursue common goals. Voices are heard and ideas are shared. Join us, and discover how your unique contributions can change lives. Yours included. Position Summary: The Data Architect defines, designs, and governs the organization’s data architecture to ensure data is integrated, secure, high quality, and aligned with business and clinical objectives. This role establishes data models, standards, and integration patterns, collaborates across IT and business teams, and provides architectural guidance so solutions adhere to enterprise principles, regulatory requirements, and performance expectations. The Data Architect provides oversight for the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence in partnership with the Executive Director of Data & Analytics and Enterprise Architecture.
Job Responsibility:
Design and maintain enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical data models
Define integration standards and data movement patterns
Collaborate with data governance to implement data standards and quality controls
Provide architectural oversight to projects throughout the lifecycle including ERP, EHR, eRA, and M365
Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to domain roadmaps
assist with aligning IT strategies to short- and long-term business goals
Grow the Architecture capability by contributing to the Community of Architects
Translate between technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Define key performance indicators and promote best practices
Requirements:
Deep understanding of data modeling, metadata, lineage, master data, analytics lifecycle, data governance practices, frameworks, and operations
Proven expertise in developing architecture, data standards, and Master data management strategies and their implementation in the enterprise data management arena
Broad swath of technology skills in Data Warehouse appliances, SQL programming, PL/SQL development, Performance tuning of Queries, BI/Reporting tools like Microsoft PowerBI/Strategy, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Epic, Workday, Alation etc.
Familiarity with healthcare data systems and data governance principles, particularly within a healthcare setting
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical and governance-related concepts into business impacts for leadership
Ability to thrive in a team setting
as well as being extremely comfortable engaging end user communities through various forms of communication-meetings, newsletters, workgroups, etc.
Must possess a “systems approach” to solving problems and issues
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Management, Information Systems, or related field
10+ years of experience in data management or engineering, including 5+ in architectural or leadership roles
What we offer:
flexible schedules
affordable health, vision and dental insurance
child care and student loan subsidies
generous levels of time off
403(b) Retirement Savings plan
Pension
Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement