Senior Data Architect

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. We use a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems, and enabling technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers’ mission in advancing biomedical research and protecting public health. Our team’s focus is ensuring our health customers have the right solutions to keep pace with an ever-evolving public health landscape and prevent the next public health crisis.  To explore and learn more, click here!

To enable these capabilities, we are building our commitment to focus on innovations that help our customers solve their problems. This requires awareness of the very complex environment we operate in, an understanding of the data and relationships that exist across federal government and state government agencies, and an awareness of the technology platforms that support the mission.

We are looking for experienced professional that has a deep understanding of the information strategy, data governance, data architecture, data management and data quality across several health organizations. The ideal candidate will have hand-on experience leading efforts across health organizations in dissecting data related challenges and building solutions that enable broader views to underlying problems.

Required Qualifications

• Leverage knowledge of healthcare industry, more specifically Medicare, public health, and clinical EMR/EHR data and workflows, to inform solution design and development to execute original solutions in a problem space that is unique and critical to Leidos customers.
• Exceptional understanding of healthcare data and data platforms, data architectures, data strategy and data transformation.
• Experience in data profiling and identifying patterns and anomalies.
• Support the design, development and delivery data pipelines that are optimized, highly reliable, with low technical debt. Demonstrated experience in building Enterprise Data Warehouses to cater for analytical and AI needs.
• Demonstrated experience in data governance and management, development of strategies to enhance data exchange, data quality, and interoperability.
• Ability to develop strong data models, develop data lineage, data catalog and dictionary.
• Preferred expertise with one or more tools used to develop models and lineage including but not limited to Collibra, Alation, IBM InfoSphere, Talend, Informatica etc.
• Capability to develop strong data business cases to address core challenges, present those ideas for stakeholders at an executive level and demonstrate thought leadership to move forward.
• Experience in understanding, analyzing and implementing relational, star, entity-relationship, multi-dimensional and object oriented database models.
• This role is functional, and matrixed to support contracts that require US Citizenship/Green Card or suitability clearances to allow customer site visits and access to secured data and systems.  Inability to meet this requirement will restrict ability to perform work on government mission-based programs.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance.

What you will bring: 

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in technology, engineering or data centric background with over 12 years experience in data architecture, analytics and governance.
• Demonstrated experience in Master Data Management (MDM) with proficiency with at least one of the tools mentioned above.
• Experience working in teams performing data management, transformation, analytics and governance of complex technical projects in healthcare.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to potentially interact with senior staff in the agency and scientific community.
• Ability to work/ collaborate with different contractor and government teams as well as industry and vendors with a high level of professionalism, good judgment, and tact.
• Ability to work well under pressure and be flexible at juggling competing priorities. Must be resourceful and independent problem solvers.
• Capable of presenting complicated concepts and course of action to Government and Leidos leadership.

Preferred Qualifications/Skills

• Graduate degree preferred.
• Experience within healthcare domain (preferably Medicare/Medicaid, FDA, NIH, CDC, VA, and agencies in HHS).
• Exceptional knowledge and skills in data management and familiarity of tools supporting data synchronization.
• Understanding of cloud based infrastructure supporting data aggregation, processing, storage and analytics.
• Ability to branch out to learn and understand other sector data and develop cross cutting solutions to solve common data challenges.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.