Enterprise Architect

Senior Medicaid Data Architect

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of a senior Medicaid Data Architect, who meets the general qualification of Enterprise Architect 3, Emerging Technologies and the specifications outlined in this document for Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Information Technology.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the HHSC. HHSC may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Workers) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by the Texas law. HHSC will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Worker(s).

HHSC IT is continuing to develop an Integrated Continuum of Care Analytics (ICCA) function under the Performance Management & Analytics System (PMAS). This development effort will utilize a hybrid agile/waterfall methodology based upon the approach currently in use at HHSC for the Performance Management & Analytics System (PMAS). As a lead and member of the PMAS Medicaid team, the worker responsibilities may include:

The Medicaid Data Architect position is an Information Technology (IT) position and will be a part of the PMAS Medicaid sprint team working in collaboration with the Office of Data Analytics & Performance (DAP) within the Health and Human Services System's business domain. This architect designs and implements integrated data solutions for a multi-terabyte data integration hub implementation. The mission of PMAS is to ensure HHS curated data is visible, accessible where appropriate, understandable in context, trusted by users, and uniformly governed in order to support integrated data analytics in the Integrated Continuum of Care Analytics initiative.

This enables data-driven decision making across the HHS system.

The Medicaid Data Architect position is an Information Technology (IT) position and will be a part Performance Management and Analytics System (PMAS) team under the Office of Chief Data Architect in Health and Human Services System's IT domain. This position is required to create data architecture(s) related to Texas Medicaid data in compliance with Texas Data Management Framework (TDMF) and HHS Data Governance (DG) policies.

The Enterprise Architect position:

• Collaborates with the Office of the Chief Data Architect on initiatives related to performance analytics and data governance.

• Architects cloud data hub integrations with Medicaid data and other data domain platforms.

• Develops best practices and methodologies to mature TDMF best practices and capability maturities.

• Develops enterprise data policy and standards that support the development of an enterprise data governance framework.

• Serves as Data Architecture and Data Management expert for the HHS system, Medicaid.

• Develops a detailed knowledge of the underlying HHS data assets and data products and provides subject matter expert on content, current and potential future uses of data.

• Assists in development and implementation of data quality processes and metrics.

• Responsible for consulting with the business owners of data assets, providers of enterprise analytics, and Information Technology leadership to develop enterprise Medicaid analytics strategy for future funding, design, and implementation

• Provides expertise in data harmonization, master data development and governance, data quality, and metadata management.

• Provides guidelines on creating data models and various standards relating to governed data.

• Reviews changes to technical and business metadata, realizing their impacts on enterprise applications, and ensures the impacts are communicated to appropriate parties.

• Establishes measures to chart progress related to the completeness and quality of metadata for enterprise information to support reduction of data redundancy and fragmentation and elimination of unnecessary movement of data; and to improve data quality.

• Assists in selecting data management tools and developing the standards, usage guidelines, and procedures for using those tools.

• Assists in identifying…