Data Architect

** Hourly Pay Range:**$41.64 - $64.54 - The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.
** Position Highlights:
*** Position:
Data Architect

* Location:

4901 Searle Parkway, Skokie IL
* Full Time

* Hours:

Monday-Friday, 8am- 4:30pm
* Hybrid schedule
* On Call (rotating)
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* What you will do:

*** Interact and lead discussions with stakeholders to understand and document the scope, business requirements and translate these into the technical design to support Endeavor Health's North Shore entity Enterprise Data Warehouse.
* Lead the translation of business needs into feasible and acceptable data-centric semantic layer designs.
* Create conceptual, logical and physical data models Kimball, Inmon and other modern frameworks using 3NF and de-normalized dimensional design philosophies.
* Drive and document the source to target mapping with the ETL developers.
* Design highly performant and secure structures such as staging areas, integrated data, data marts, cubes and operational data stores.
* Suggest, document and enforce data warehousing best practices including overall Data warehouse architecture relating to ODS, ETL
* Drive adoption of cloud data warehouse and lakehouse solutions such as Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query, or Azure Fabric.
* Partner with engineering teams to design ETL/ELT pipelines, data marts, and semantic layers.
* Ensure data governance, security, lineage, and compliance standards are embedded in architecture.
* Estimate and communicate the work effort to EDW management, Stakeholders and own the deliverables from inception, review and signoff of the deliverables.
* Review, improve and enhance existing models to ensure compliance with best practices around master data management and a 3-layer architecture across technology platforms.
* Act independently under general direction and may also provide technical consulting on complex projects throughout the organization.
* Suggest improvements to data quality through data quality frameworks and processes preferred.
* Knowledge of defining Master Data Management solutions architecture and setting technical direction and defining component architecture.
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* What you will need:

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* ** Education**: 4 year college degree in computer science/data processing or equivalent work experience
* ** Experience**:
* 6+ years supporting and developing software applications.
* 6+ years of experience as a Data Architect, Data Modeler with a data warehouse (PLSQL SSQL database experience is key, DBA experience not required)
* ** Unique or Preferred Skills**:
* Strong dimensional modeling and star schema design skills
* Ability to translate business needs into technical design.
* 2+ years required experience with any Data Modeling tool (Erwin preferred)
* Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems is a plus
* 1+ year of Proven hands-on experience with
** at least one
** major cloud data platform:  +
** Snowflake
* * or
** Databricks
* * or
** Google Big Query or Azure Synapse/ Fabric
*** Experience with SQL, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data integration tools (Informatica, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Talend, etc.).
* Understanding of data governance, metadata management, MDM, and data security practices.
* Experience with reporting tools such as Cognos/Power BI is a plus.
* Experience with Epic Clarity and Caboodle databases is a plus
* Familiarity with Healthcare industry is a plus
* Experience and detailed understanding of iterative system implementation, programming, integration, data conversion and testing techniques.
* Strong verbal and written communication, presentation and customer service skills
* Ability to solve highly complex technical and operational problems
* Programming skills and the ability to maintain and understand complex applications
** Benefits (For full time or part time positions):
*** Incentive pay for select positions
* Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
* Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
* Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Free Parking
* Wellness Program Savings Plan
* Health Savings…