Data Architect

The Leidos Health & Civil Sector is seeking a Data Architect, contingent upon award, to support a state Medicaid program that will assist the State in modernizing Medicaid Enterprise System architecture with a modular System Integration Platform (SIP) that provides flexible system integration services. The ideal candidate must be a strong Architect to lead the implementation of an ODS component of the integration platform, energetic and self-motivated, able to guide and mentor technical professionals, and with a value-driven and customer-centric mindset.

The role is fully remote. Candidate MUST be located in the United States and be a US Citizen or US person.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify the data structure to meet business requirements for Medicaid Enterprise System Integrator (MESI) Implementation.

• Evaluate data structures of Business Areas

• Implement data management technologies as proposed in the Bid.

• Develop Data Management Architecture document

• Initiate and approve changes to names, formats, and definitions of the data models and elements including performing coordination and validation with the Data Stewards, Data Governance Leads, and Data Owners

• Develop and maintain the Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Model

• Ensure the solutions aligns with State Medicaid Program Data Standards

• Partnering with Business Analyst, leads requirements and design sessions with customers to elicit technical details of data structures, models and mappings required for ODS ETL and development.

• Leads the development of a ODS design and development as part of an integration platform.

• Integrates  ODS, data services and module vendor applications, to ensure that they work together effectively.

• Collaborates with DevSecOps Engineer to design an integrated software, build, and release process across the development, test, and production environments.

• Address the vulnerabilities and potential security threats identified through automated security scans and penetration testing.

• Maintains software applications, including monitoring and troubleshooting issues, performing upgrades and patches, and addressing security concerns.

• Collaborates with other teams, such as architecture, product, test, and operations, to ensure that software development is integrated effectively with other processes.

• Maintains documentation related to software development, including design documents, test plans, and user manuals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in either computer science, computer engineering, or a related field. 12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 10 years of prior relevant experience.

• Extensive experience in data management, data governance, data modeling, data quality, data services, application design, systems analysis, and technology architectures.

• MUST have experience working on a Medicaid program or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects.

• Experience leading small teams of data engineers in agile development environment.

• Experience with software development tracking and documentation tools such as Jira or similar.

• Experience modeling data with Erwin or similar data model designing tools

• Experience with RDBMS such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

• Experience developing data services using standards such as REST, SOAP, JSON.

• Possesses good communication, and customer interaction and engagement skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect (Associate), AWS Solutions Architect

• Experience with Medicaid Management Information System implementations

• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards such as EDI, FHIR, HL7, and IHE

• Experience with InterSystems IRIS for Health integration product.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.