Responsibilities
- Assess existing data and reporting environments to identify opportunities where automation can replace manual work
- Design and drive an automation-first data architecture that supports scalable modernization across multiple environments
- Define and implement repeatable patterns for modernizing legacy data pipelines, analytics workloads, and reporting systems
- Leverage AI-assisted and tool-based approaches to accelerate modernization while maintaining control and compliance
- Establish architectural guardrails to ensure modernization efforts are consistent, auditable, and reliable
- Partner closely with data engineering, platform, and delivery teams to translate architecture into executable solutions
- Stay actively involved in hands-on execution to validate designs and drive outcomes
- Provide clear technical direction and pragmatic decision-making throughout the modernization lifecycle
Required Experience
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering or data architecture
- A proven track record of modernizing complex, legacy data and reporting environments
- Demonstrated ability to reduce manual effort through automation, accelerators, or AI-assisted tooling
- Strong grounding in data architecture and analytics layers
- Experience designing and operating data pipelines and processing workflows
- Knowledge of data quality, validation, and reconciliation
- Experience owning both architectural design and hands-on execution
- Experience operating in large-scale or regulated environments, with attention to compliance, control, and risk
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting payer or healthcare data environments
- Background working across multi-instance or multi-tenant data platforms
- Experience acting as a technical lead or thought partner on modernization initiatives
Top Skills
What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development. DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm. DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
