Data Architect

Summary:

The PBM business is a data-intensive business with much of MedImpact’s value to its clients deriving from the careful organization, processing and sharing of data. The Data Architect plays a key, visible role within MedImpact IT as well as Business organizations. The Data Architect defines, refines, promotes, and drives adoption of the MedImpact target state architecture. This role partners with business leaders to understand and articulate enterprise/business strategy, IT strategic elements supporting it, strategic planning, and defining target architectures. This role is also responsible for defining architecture and technology standards and ensuring all information and technology solutions adhere to MedImpact’s standards and best practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Duties and responsibilities other than those listed below may be assigned as necessary and appropriate.
As a Data Architect the following overarching duties and responsibilities apply:

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system changes to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, and business requirements.
• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
• Provide consulting support to other architects and team members within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies due to aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow, and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation).
• Analyze the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Provides technical leadership in analyzing needs and translating them into robust, operationally sustainable and extensible technical solutions.
• Identifies through research and prior experience, optimal methods and approaches to translating business needs into software solutions.
• Makes recommendations for technical solutions by addressing application, data and technology architectures. Identifies optimal methods and approaches for translating business needs into software solutions.
• Guides cross-functional teams including Business Analysts, Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers in implementing technical solutions in line with MedImpact architecture standards and best-practices.
• Helps software development teams implement industry-appropriate and regulation-compliant software solutions.
• Facilitates and participates in business requirements analysis.
• Participates and provides technical know-how on new product development or major product enhancements.
• Translates business needs into solution architectures within the Application, Data & Technology paradigms.
• Guides and reviews software, database, and systems designs.
• Assists with resolution of business-critical issues within the operational environment as needed.

Supervisory Responsibilities
No supervisory responsibilities.

Client Responsibilities
This is an internal and external client facing position that requires excellent customer service skills and interpersonal communication skills (listening/verbal/written). One must be able to; manage difficult or emotional client situations; Respond promptly to client needs; Solicit client feedback to improve service; Respond to requests for service and assistance from clients; Meet commitments to clients.

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 and/or Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent technical discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience) required along with at least 10+ years’ experience in an Enterprise Architect position building and deploying enterprise-class applications along with prior experience in a technical leadership role. Experience and/or exposure to PBM, managed health care or pharmaceutical industries is a plus.

Computer Skills/Tools and Technologies
Expert level knowledge and experience is required in the following:

• Expert level experience in at least one Architecture Framework (e.g., TOGAF), Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), and Design Patterns
• Architecture and design skills including background in Mobile and Web Apps, APIs, Micro Frontends, and Micro Services.
• Expertise in at lest one of the cloud service provider solutions (e.g., AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Enterprise Software Development experience in with one or more Object-oriented Programming languages

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
TOGAF Certification

Other Skills and Abilities Demonstrated ability in the following areas essential:

• Design of complex software solutions including, architecture, design, data-modeling and systems engineering
• Experience in all phases of software development lifecycle including strong background in Agile Software Development Methodology
• Analytical-thinking, critical-reasoning, and problem-solving skills as applied to complex business-technology subject areas
• Written, verbal and presentation skills to educate, inform and facilitate decision-making at management level
• Initiate and influence change in a “matrixed” environment with limited formal authority
• Proficiency in sizing, capacity-planning, and performance-tuning software applications
• Demonstrated skills in problem solving, solution analysis & visualization
• Excellent organizational, communication (written, verbal and presentation) facilitation, collaboration and influencing skills

Reasoning Ability
Following are necessary logical reasoning skills: effectively differentiate business needs from wants; effectively differentiate business requirements from technical requirements; troubleshoot technical issues involving multiple technologies through careful organization of available data, analysis and logical interpretation of observations

Mathematical Skills
Following are necessary mathematical skills: organize multi-dimensional data in spreadsheets in order to derive decision-enabling information (e.g. capacity planning); present complex data in graphical formats (bar graphs, histograms, etc.)

Language Skills
Following are necessary verbal and written language skills: understand business and technical periodicals, journals, procedures and regulatory documents; write reports, business correspondence, procedures and technical standards

Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Analytical - Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data; Designs work flows and procedures.
• Interpersonal Skills - Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting; Keeps emotions under control; Remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
• Innovation - Displays original thinking and creativity; Meets challenges with resourcefulness; Generates suggestions for improving work; Develops innovative approaches and ideas; Presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention.
• Judgment - Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Works well in group problem solving situations; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work Location
This position must work on-site at the San Diego Headquarters for purposes of providing adequate support to internal clients; being available for face-to-face interactions and coordination of work with other employees, colleagues, clients, or vendors; as well as for facilitation of quick and effective decisions through collaboration with stakeholders. Remote work is not an option for these purposes.

Working Hours
This is an exempt level position requiring one to work the hours needed to get the job done. Therefore one must have the flexibility to work beyond traditional hours and be able to work nights, weekends or on holidays as required. This may be changed from time to time to meet the needs of the business. Typical core business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Travel - This position may require domestic travel as well as attendance at various local conferences and meetings.