IT Specialist; Data Lakehouse Architect

We are excited in your interest to join DC Health (The District of Columbia Department of Health), a nationally accredited public health department (https://phaboard.org/) Where our Vision is for Washington, D.C. to be the healthiest city in America. We believe that all people - no matter their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, education level, age, language, religion, ability, or geographic location - should have the opportunity to live healthy lives.

Bring your professional career to Washington, D.C., the most dynamic and diverse city in the country. Join us as you are appreciated, developed, and rewarded and play a vital role in DC Health achieving our Strategic Priorities and Values:

We look forward to reviewing your candidacy, be well and good luck!

This position is located in the Department of Health (DC Health) within the Office of The Director, Office of Information Technology (OD-IT). DC Health promotes health, wellness, and equity across the District, and protects the safety of residents, visitors, and those doing business in the nation’s capital. DC Health believes that all people - no matter their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, education level, age, language, religion, ability, or geographic location - should have the opportunity to live healthy lives.

Integral to this role is a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The IT Specialist (Data Lakehouse Architect) is a Senior IT Specialist responsible for designing, documenting, upgrading, and enhancing an enterprise platform that can centrally store data (structured, un-structured, and semi-structured) from various critical applications, and systems for analysis and decision-making. The role requires hands-on experience with data ingestion, extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Infrastructure-as-Code, as well as knowledge of IAM policies, security controls, data and cloud governance.

The incumbent candidate for this position will have the unique opportunity to lead data lakehouse assessment, planning and development activities for the DC Health, working under the general direction of the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO) and working closely with stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve system issues affecting data access, integrity, performance, security and storage, and recommends integration architecture upgrades to improve data availability, recovery, and future systems resilience within the District.

Incumbent serves as an IT Specialist, with primary responsibility for designing, documenting, upgrading, and enhancing enterprise data models to support critical applications and services. This role involves ensuring adherence to government laws and regulations, safeguarding information and computer systems, and troubleshooting and resolving application and integration-related issues. The role also involves defining infrastructure for application design and integration cloud-based systems, confirming application architecture capability and flexibility to support high availability web/cloud applications, and improving application architecture by evaluating emerging technologies and their applicability to business goals and operational requirements

The incumbent also contributes to strategic plans, prepares action plans, implements production and quality standards, and collaborates with senior management to understand information requirements and prioritize development tasks. Additionally, the Application Developer/Integration Architect defines infrastructure for application and integration design, confirms application capability, and improves architecture by…