Senior Principal Data Architect

Description:

The Patient Care Systems portfolio develops and delivers connected technologies, data platforms, and interoperability capabilities that support clinical workflows and patient care across healthcare settings. The Data Architecture function enables scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions that support product innovation, clinical data exchange, analytics, and regulatory requirements across a complex healthcare ecosystem.

As a Senior Principal Data Architect, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale healthcare data platforms, interoperability solutions, and data architecture strategy within the Patient Care Systems ecosystem. You will collaborate across product, engineering, architecture, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define and deliver scalable data capabilities that enable clinical data exchange, analytics, and digital health solutions while maintaining alignment with business objectives and architectural standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Work with the Platform Data Architect to enable architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the data solutions in the Patient Care Systems ecosystem.
Work with the Product Manager to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.
Provide well-informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of architecture and design.
Identify and document technical risks/debt and strategies for mitigation.
Gain support and approval for architecture and design; this often involves collaboration with corporate security entities and platform teams.
Deliver and maintain architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidance
Accountable for technical viability of quality solutions that work with the given cost, scope, and schedule while maximizing progress toward the vision and balancing technical debt.
Collaborate with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, Architects, and peers to define solutions to market requirements.
Work with other teams in the formulation and review of their work, providing critical thinking and additional options that improve the work of the wider team.
Work with Product Leaders to define vision by providing a voice of technical possibility, feasibility, and sequencing options.
Collaborate with Privacy, Security and Regulatory entities regarding the technical impact of emerging and existing legislation with data implications (e.g. EU Data Act, GDPR, HIPAA)
Analyze and define internal and external customer requirements and mapping rules for clinical data exchange through a variety of data acquisition channels
Collaborate with offshore and onsite development and build quality products supporting Agile activities ensuring deliverables meet both quality and performance standards
Participate in Agile grooming, planning, retrospectives, design reviews and user acceptance
Identify ways to transform & enrich data to enhance the business value of the data by implementing approaches to meet the business needs, while leveraging reusable and scalable solutions
Build and advance collaborative relationships with business partners, product managers and IT partners
Stay current on latest technologies, evolving HL7 standards and changes
Strive to be a thought leader and advanced practitioner in data integration and interoperability

Delivery: 

Demonstrate strong communication and customer management skills
Serve as a technical evangelist regarding data platform capabilities.
Bring a clear data influence on the culture, patterns, practices, and tooling of software delivery with Agile and DevOps foundations.
Engages with the persistent teams through Agile/Scrum ceremonies including and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate
Engages with the larger data architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Care Systems ecosystem of hardware and software
Enforces the use of patterns, practices, and standards that enable teams to work more independently.
Balances data with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designed
Works with persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learnings
Guides the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for delivery
Accountable for delivery of features into production

Responsibilities may also include the following:

Design, develop, document, test, maintain, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions
Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
Determine computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline and 15+ years of relevant experience in software, data, or platform architecture; or Master's degree and 13+ years of relevant experience.
Experience in troubleshooting issues with data sets, formatting and coding
Experience with relational database management systems, big data solutions and distributed computing frameworks
Strong knowledge of platform as a service offering, as well as best practices regarding instantiation and configuration
Advanced knowledge of data streaming, batch and transformation
Ability to translate business processes/requirements into functional specifications/documents
Solid group communication skills including fluency in the languages of business and technology
Demonstrated expertise in software development life cycle methodologies including Waterfall and Agile
Cloud experience, preferably AWS