Data Architect

To be successful, you must demonstrate a passion for data and analytics innovation and advancing the company’s data culture.  Medical Device or Healthcare industry expertise is not a requirement for their role, but a preference.  Liberator Medical is seeking an innovator whose expertise is in implementing cutting-edge analytical solutions.

The ideal candidate fosters teamwork and can build strong interpersonal relationships with the Operations teams, Technology teams, Leadership, and Stakeholders with a focus on building the right functionality in the right order and helping overcome obstacles.  The successful candidate must be highly analytical, detail-oriented, and naturally curious with the ability to improvise and develop creative solutions when common approaches fail.  The candidate possesses a strong value of pragmatism over idealism in times of uncertainty with a perpetual curiosity and passion for honing your craft.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Define the standards, procedures, models, and technologies that will implement the company’s digital data strategy

Design platform capabilities to ensure high availability for the organization’s Data Platform and its associated applications

Design data integration solutions to manage the flow of data between systems and applications

Optimize data systems for AI performance, ensuring seamless integration with AI applications.

Develop and maintain an architecture roadmap in support of long-term strategic initiatives

Evaluate new technologies, perform proof-of-concepts, and make recommendations for adoption

Monitor system performance, identify issues related to performance, scalability, and reliability, and design solutions to remediate

Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization

Partner with IT, Data Governance, and subject matter experts to create and deploy effective data quality monitors and to advocate for strong data governance.

Create a partnership with Software Engineering and direct adoption of standards and best practices

Develop data-driven solutions to difficult business challenges

Ensure healthcare information security best practice controls are in place and they adhere to HIPAA utilizing a common control framework (i.e. NIST, HITRUST)

Partner with Marketing to design, test, measure and refine strategies focused on driving customer acquisition, retention, reactivation, frequency, spend and lifetime value

Develop master data management (MDM) strategies to collect, maintain, and leverage data for common business entities

Develop metadata management strategies to collection, maintain, and leverage application and system metadata

ANCILLARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES

Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and coaching to data and application engineers

Implement reliable and scalable automation solutions using out of box thinking, delivering high quality user experiences

Partner with vendors to ensure we are maximizing the benefits of our systems and tools.


REPORTING RELATIONSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

_X__ No supervisory responsibilities

____ Provides work direction only

____ Provides work direction plus has responsibility for hiring, promotions, transfers, performance management, discipline, and discharge.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OR QUALIFICATIONS (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, MIS or related field preferred

Database knowledge: Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake

Data streaming and CDC technologies: Kafka, FiveTran, Databricks

Data visualization tools and frameworks: Power BI, Tableau, Looker

Experience with AI/ML engineering

Knowledge of SaaS / PaaS / IaaS / DaaS platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) including Infrastructure as code with Terraform, or similar, utilization

Expert knowledge of best security practices for cloud apps

Expert with CI/CD pipelines

Experience with understanding HIPAA/HITECH regulations and guidelines for securing ePHI & PII data

Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional teams to develop, document and improve processes