Data Architect

New York City Metropolitan Area / Washington DC-Baltimore Area / Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Software Development - Technology – Platform /
Full Time /
Remote
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states. 
 
The Data Architect role is responsible for developing, documenting and communicating frameworks, standards and practices to ensure that HHAeXchange is properly managing and utilizing the data created and used within its business. The role works within engineering to oversee governance of the enterprise data platform, and with stakeholders across to business to coordinate a full enterprise strategy.
 
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Job Duties

    • Contribute to the definition of technical strategy as a member of the Architecture team by identifying new technologies and approaches and collaborating on development of standards;
    • Participate in leading technical transformation by contributing to a unified Architectural vision and promoting it within the organization.
    • Acting as a senior resource for several teams, ensures the technical quality of all their deliveries, including code quality, security, scalability and availability by working to empower and enable team members to grow their skills and capabilities as engineers.
    • Partner with Product team members to help during Product Discovery process to identify high level approaches and designs for new initiatives and features, participate in prototyping efforts and help move new initiatives from ideas to working systems. Design, create, deploy, and manage the organization's data architecture, ensuring that its data assets are aligned with its business goals, are secure, and can be effectively utilized for decision‐making and strategic planning.
    • Design data models, databases, and integration processes, ensuring data quality and security.
    • Develop and promote standards for teams to develop and maintain models and integration processes.
    • Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and IT teams to understand structural requirements and define standards for storing, consuming, integrating, and managing data across the organization and translating it into a usable blueprint.
    • Implement and maintain data security and privacy measures and ensure compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements, including data classification and protection standards
    • Establish and maintain a data catalog and metadata that provides clear definition, provenance and lifecycle management of all data
    • Document data definitions, standards, and policies.
    • Work with developers and system administrators to implement data solutions. Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility, constantly monitoring and refining the performance of data management systems to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
    • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data architecture.
    • Ensure adherence to data governance and stewardship policies and practices.
    • Create and maintain documentation for data architecture processes and standards.

Other Job Duties

    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHA exchange leader.

Travel Requirements

    • Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel

Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills

    • B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field, or significant relevant experience
    • 10+ years of experience designing and building data platforms and analytic system
    • 3+ years of experience working as an architect
    • Demonstrated experience with defining data governance and planning
    • Significant experience with Snowflake, Tableau and DBT is preferred
    • Experience developing and supporting a distributed software system in production is preferred
The base salary range for this US-based, full-time, and exempt position is $180,000-200,000, not including variable compensation. An employee’s exact starting salary will be based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, merit, location, and the ability to exemplify the HHAeXchange core values.
 
This is a benefits-eligible position. HHAeXchange offers competitive health plans, paid time-off, company paid holidays, 401K retirement program with a Company elected match, including other company sponsored programs.

HHAeXchange is an equal-opportunity employer. The Company offers employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, genetic information, hairstyles, or any other status protected by local or federal law.