What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Data Warehouse Architect position at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab?
The Senior Enterprise Data Warehouse Architect Will
Design & Architecture
Reports directly to the Director of Data Platform Architecture
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
Design & Architecture
- Responsible for the data architecture and database design of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, collaborating with other Data platform architects on the overall architecture of the data warehouse ecosystem.
- Create logical and physical data models to support analytical needs of the organization, guide and oversee data modeling activities executed at a project or program level
- Define data standards, naming conventions, and data architecture best practices.
- Ensure data architecture supports all Data Sets (types), and maintains integrity across systems.
- Optimize data storage, indexing, and query performance for analytical workloads.
- Collaborate with Data Governance team to Implement data policies, including metadata management and data lineage tracking.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA depending on industry).
- Work closely with business analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and leadership to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Communicate architectural decisions and provide guidance to development teams.
- Collaborate in the evaluation, testing, and recommendation of new tools, platforms, and technologies (cloud data warehouses, BI tools, ETL & MLL frameworks, etc.)
- Stay current with trends in data architecture, cloud platforms, and big data technologies.
- Monitor data warehouse performance and resolve bottlenecks and/or data quality issues.
- Ensure Data design reflects high availability, reliability, and scalability of the data warehouse environment.
Reports directly to the Director of Data Platform Architecture
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant field.
- 8 years of proven experience as an Enterprise Data Warehouse Architect role, preferably in an environment integrating data from medical EHR systems into Data warehouse / BI platforms
- 8 years of experience (as DBA or Data Warehouse Architect) with Snowflake and/or Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB)
- 8 years of experience creating / leading data modeling activities for Data Warehouse or analytical solutions
- In-depth understanding of database management systems (SQL & NOSQL) , online analytical processing (OLAP), and ETL (Extract, transform, load) frameworks.
- Experience in data warehouse design (e.g. dimensional modeling), supporting multiple analytics outcomes (include Data Mining, AI and MLL)
- Experience with modern BI / Information delivery technologies (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OAS, Tableau Cloud).
- Experience with modern Analytical Data management platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Fabric, etc..)
- Familiar with common Data Warehouse architecture design strategies and appropriate application; including medallion, data Lake, data mart, ODS, etc
- Experience integrating data from medical EHR systems, and Workday financial SAAS platform into Data warehouse / BI platforms
- Working knowledge of SQL and NLQ data access techniques and methodologies
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience leading analytical development programs
- Normal office environment with little or no exposure to dust or extreme temperature.
- Hybrid work schedule