Data Architect.

Basic Function

The Data Architect leads the design, evolution, and governance of the data architecture underlying Quality Insights' electronic quality measurement (eQM) platform. This role owns the technical architecture that allows the platform to ingest data from additional sources, achieve and maintain compliance with FHIR and related interoperability standards, and expedite implementation of new measure specification requirements. The Data Architect builds and maintains the platform's interoperability plan for electronic measurement reporting, defining how the architecture consumes data from additional sources via industry-standard formats such as FHIR, CQL, and QDM. This role also leads quarterly technical presentations on platform architecture progress, and designs and validates the data models, integration patterns, and cloud infrastructure that support platform performance, scalability, and modernization. The Data Architect collaborates with clinicians, analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to translate quality measurement and interoperability requirements into durable, well-governed data architecture.

Organizational Relationships

Reports to the Director of Analytic Resources. Serves as the technical authority on data architecture for the eQM platform, working collaboratively with clinical subject matter experts, analysts, software developers, data engineers, database administrators, interoperability specialists, and cloud engineers to design and govern the platform's data architecture, and with organizational stakeholders to align architecture decisions with quality measurement initiatives and technical solution delivery. Provides technical leadership across data engineering, DevSecOps, AI/ML, and security functions supporting the eQM platform. 

Role and Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No

Skills / Professional Competencies Required:

Required Qualifications/Technical Expertise

• Demonstrated expertise in data architecture disciplines, including data modeling, master data management, data governance, and architecture design for large-scale healthcare data platforms.
• Expertise in healthcare quality measurement and interoperability standards, including eCQMs, QDM, CQL, HL7 FHIR, USCDI, and TEFCA, with experience architecting FHIR resource models and CQL-based measure logic.
• Strong programming and analytics skills using SQL/T-SQL, Python, R, and .NET.
• Experience designing cloud data architecture using Azure technologies, including Azure Databricks and Apache Spark.
• Proficiency in data architecture disciplines including RESTful API design, healthcare data integration architecture, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data warehousing, and database design.
• Deep understanding of healthcare interoperability architecture, clinical data exchange, and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).
• Familiarity with security and risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST Risk Management Framework, HITRUST) as applied to healthcare data architecture and compliance.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, and related protocols) as they pertain to secure data architecture and integration.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) for provisioning and managing cloud data architecture.
• Experience with SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics, including data query optimization at scale.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Computing Environment (CE) certification (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Linux) or equivalent demonstrated platform certification.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting VHA, VA, CMS, or other federal healthcare organizations.
• Knowledge of healthcare quality and reporting programs, including MIPS, HEDIS, Joint Commission, and CMS reporting requirements.
• Experience with healthcare quality reporting and performance measurement platforms.
• Experience with data governance frameworks, metadata management, and enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK).
• Familiarity with AI/ML applications for healthcare analytics and quality improvement.
• Relevant Azure, Databricks, cloud architecture, data architecture, or healthcare informatics certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, DAMA/CDMP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Snowflake SnowPro, or Databricks Certified Data Engineer/Architect).

Minimum Education/Training Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.

Minimum Experience Required:

Substitution(s):

A Master's degree may substitute for up to two (2) years of applicable experience, and a doctoral degree may substitute for up to three (3) years. Relevant cloud, interoperability, healthcare informatics, or data engineering certifications may substitute for up to two (2) years of related technical experience. 

Substitutions may be combined; however, candidates must possess at least four (4) years of directly relevant experience in healthcare analytics, data management, interoperability, quality measurement, healthcare technology, or a related field.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

None

Security Level:

Low

  

 

 

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

The physical demands marked below are representative of those that will be required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  

 Requirement

Yes/No

Lifting (lbs.) 

If yes, Specify Range: 

Up to 10 pounds

Yes

Carrying (lbs.) 

If yes, Specify Range: 

Up to 10 pounds

 Yes

Stooping, Bending

 Yes

Kneeling, Squatting

 Yes

Walking

Yes

Standing

Yes

Sitting

Yes

Climbing, Balancing (e.g., climbing and working from ladder)

No

Use of Hands to Finger, Handle, or Feel

Yes

Physical Coordination (sequential or simultaneous use of hands, arms, feet, and legs)

Yes

Eye-Hand Coordination

No

Close Vision (clear vision at 20" or less)

Yes

Distance Vision (clear vision at 20' or more)

No

Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)

No

Depth Perception (ability to judge distance spatial relationships)

No

Hearing in person

Yes

Hearing on telephone

Yes

Speaking in person

Yes

Speaking on telephone

Yes

  

 

 

The environmental conditions marked below are common to this job: 

 Condition

Yes/No

Outdoor Weather Conditions

No

Wet, Humid Conditions (non-weather)

No

Work Near Moving Mechanical Parts

No

Work in High, Precarious Places

No

Fumes or Dust

No

Toxic or Caustic Chemicals

No

Extreme Heat (non-weather over 90 deg. F.)

No

Low Noise (e.g. business office)

Yes

Moderate Noise (e.g., light motorized equipment such as lawn mowers)

No

Loud Noise (e.g., jackhammer, heavy motorized equipment)

No

 

 

Acknowledgement:

I hereby verify that I understand the job description and requirements and attest that I meet minimum requirements for the position. I understand that management may assign other duties/responsibilities at any time. I also understand that should licensure/certification be a mandatory part of the job, that I will maintain and renew such license/certification as required. I understand that I am obligated to notify Human Resources and my supervisor should there be a change in status of such license/certification within one business day of the change. I understand that failure to maintain current licensure/certification and complete mandatory continuing educational requirements may lead to disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination. I further understand that this job description does not constitute an employment contract. Instead, I understand that I am an at-will employee and that my employment may be terminated, with or without cause, at any time by either the employer or me.

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