Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
7265 WINDSOR BLVD SUITE 106 - Windsor Mill, MD
Remote Type
Fully Remote
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Salary Range
$110,500.00 - $156,000.00
Description
Index Analytics, LLC, is a rapidly growing, Baltimore-based small business providing health-related consulting services to the federal government. At the center of our company culture is a commitment to instilling a dynamic and employee-friendly place to work. We place a priority on promoting a supportive and collegial team environment and enhancing staff experience through career development and educational opportunities.
Index Analytics is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to support Government clients in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. Metro Area as well as its corporate initiates. The Cloud Data Architect will lead design, implementation, and documentation of data architecture, create expand and optimize data models for data ingestion and data consumption for a variety of corporate and customer use-cases.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data journey maps to stay in sync with the customer needs, technology modernization, and regulatory changes.
- Iteratively build Conceptual, logical, and physical data models with applicable data structures in the Cloud database platform that maps to the business and product development goals.
- Create and maintain processes for efficient data ingestion, storage, and transformation of source data from disparate systems to enable data analytic needs for various data consumers include the use of raw data, transformed and curated data.
- Build systems with high availability, fault tolerant that can detect cloud system failures, scale automatically for peak workloads, and optimize utilization costs.
- Build and review cost and usage report regularly with the system owners.
- Propose and implement data and application access control policies across user personas, monitor use of data assets, performance of data retrieval jobs, and report access security violations
- Research and outline recommendations to align with the Agency's data strategy, use industry best practices, and agency approved tools to support data governance goals that is not limited to building a data catalog, controlled access to data assets for authorized users.
- Establish and maintain a cloud-enabled GitHub repository or storing and versioning all applicable code components and scripts used for data analysis, data integration and disseminations.
- Propose and implement an advanced code branching strategy that supports robust packaging, deployments, and release of code without conflicts.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of CMS TRA guidelines and processes to Implement a cloud-enabled architecture and platform leveraging DevSecOps principles
- Prepare Architecture diagrams and artifacts, present, and lead discussions in CMS TRB to support receipt of an ATO for new platform and applications.
- Mentor the team to use CI/CD tools appropriately and propagate changes seamlessly in an automated fashion across environments
- Bring an automate first approach to modernize creation, configuration, and deployment of Database infrastructure and environments reducing manual effort
- Collaborate with the technical team and DevSecOPs engineers to institute a pushbutton based process for quality and code vulnerability checks and enable code migrations
- Extensive experience using Jira and Confluence to support planning for Agile product development, delivery, and storage of release artifacts.
- Coordinate with the assigned Security Analyst and the agency's Security Officer to support regular Security and Privacy compliance initiatives not limited to Penetrating testing, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Security Impact Assessments (SIA), and Cyber Security Risk Assessment Program (CSRAP)
- Work with Product Owners and/or business stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate to detailed technical specifications, data architecture and solutions
- Expert in emerging distributed data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and its integration with external applications.
- Administer, secure, and configure cloud databases such as Snowflake, tables/views, users to support cross-functional teams
- Mentor junior staff on cloud data architecture and data engineering best practices.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- US citizen or Authorized to Work and lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government Public Trust.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT or relevant discipline required plus 8 years of related experience.
- 8+ years of IT experience in data management and enterprise application integration
- 3+ years of cloud data architecture and administration expertise.
- 3+ years of experience with designing, building and operating data pipelines with tools such as Databricks, Informatica, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions or similar
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with multi-purpose programming languages such as Python
- Hands on experience with using distributed cloud computing platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon EMR etc. for data processing
- Working experience working with databases that handle structured and semi-structured (JSON) and unstructured datasets
- Lead proof of concepts to bring new data architecture and engineering practices, tools, and features to implementations
- Experience with data serialization languages such as JSON, XML, YAML
- Working experience with code management tools (e.g., Git, SVN) and DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker, AWS CodePipeline)
- Working experience with Transactional and Dimensional data modeling methodologies with strong foundational knowledge of metadata management
- Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Possess an automation-first mindset to streamline data operations
- Ability to train junior staff on cloud data platforms, architecture, and data engineering best practices
- Strong analytical problem-solving ability
- Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication required
- Prior experience with Center for Medicare Medicaid Services or other Govt agencies is a plus
The salary range provided represents the estimated compensation for new hires in this position, applicable across all locations. Actual offers may vary based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and market conditions. Index complements its base salary offering with a competitive package that includes health and retirement benefits, discretionary bonuses, and reimbursement for professional development opportunities.
Index Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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