Data lead

Job Description

Job Description

Job Overview :

The State of Vermont is seeking a highly skilled Data Architect / Lead to design, manage, and implement the data architecture for Vermont's Integrated Enrollment System (VTies). This position will play a critical role in migrating data from legacy systems to a new, integrated case management platform, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance throughout the process.

Responsibilities :

• Generate a comprehensive architecture document for all data sources detailing the database or data model and for each identify all data elements, their name, origin, data classification, attribute, format, whether a key, index, the edits, verification, or validation done to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Assists the project team to describe / document the common data models, how managed, maintained and their contribution to downstream applications and processes.
• Partners with business and IT teams to gain consensus, and to establish and implement the migration solution architecture standards, policies.
• Partners with data governance group, technical architects, and IT leads in the selection of all data, and the ETL and / or customized and configurable tools to be proposed / used in data assembly, aggregation and subsequent migration.
• Provides impact analysis on key data issues to assist with prioritization.
• Ensures the architectural vision, roadmap, and standards for governing, modeling, storing, delivering, and migrating data within the enterprise are adhered to.
• Assists to develop and implement data stewardship practices and a shared responsibility model of data governance.
• Ensures the migration solution design addresses the data standards and principles both from a functional and technical requirement perspective.
• Leads data migration architecture and data migration design sessions and drives resolution of design issues as appropriate.
• Leads the design of migration solutions to enable the external stakeholder community (VTies solution provider) to use contributing data, both Open Data and under Data Sharing Agreements.
• Prepares documentation, including data architecture, data migration design, data / system flow charts, associated business processes and data migration plans / planning.
• Conducts data architecture and design reviews and issue resolution.
• Develops reference data models, methods, and documentation for the project team to implement for data correlation and / or interleaving via use of an MDM, transitory and / or staging entities that support migration to a target database.
• Works with Data Stewards and technical SMEs to identify Critical Data Elements.
• Lead and / or participate in Data Management initiative across business units as required.
• Define and implement policies and processes for data quality, data security, and governance for the project.
• Develop and implement strategy(s) for Data Mastery and Master Data Management.
• Develop governance process(es) for data stewards to manage Master Data.
• Partners directly with IT development teams and technical architects in the implementation of all applied logical data models.
• Ensures data quality and integrity; interprets, analyzes, and drives resolution of data problems.
• Tests performance of data-driven products.
• Raises Data Quality issues to the project team and State leadership.
• Attends relevant data meetings where specific knowledge is required.
• Conducts reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, reusability, and ease of maintenance.
• Architects, designs, and documents a Pilot execution environment to test and analyze the performance and resource demands of the Data Migration Solution in accordance with the Data Migration Plan.
• Other assignments as required to achieve the successful completion of the project and associated tasks.

Core Technological Requirements :

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications : (Needs certification)

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)