Senior Data Architect

Your Quest: Build the tools that improve healthcare access
At Quest Analytics, our mission is to make healthcare more accessible for all Americans. As part of our team, you’ll work in an innovative, collaborative, challenging and flexible environment that supports your personal growth, every day. We’re looking for a Sr. Data Architect to join our growing team. We will rely on you to help take our product to the next level as we continue to scale and develop our business. 
The Senior Data Architect will help us design & build our technology and data platforms which power the growth of our products.  We are looking for a top-tier data architect who can work up, down, and across our technology with our product teams and related systems to help solidify our information model and drive technical decision-making. This role will require a strong focus on both how we design, build, and deliver technology solutions, integrations, and data stores as well as solving our data and system design challenges.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with other Architects, engineering leaders and product managers to lead teams in requirements definition, domain modeling, design, architecture evaluation, and implementation of our systems and services
• Define and document data patterns, standards, and practices
• Apply systems thinking to our data architecture and technology platforms to drive optimizations for speed of delivery, quality, and maintainability
• Work across the organization to foster a culture of data design and architecture that encourages and supports iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Partner with our security team to refine our data security strategy while encouraging a security-first mentality across the organization
• Guide the engineering and product teams in anticipation of future data needs and craft design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes within our data systems
• Meet business needs by collaborating with business partners to assist with defining and delivering our technology and product roadmap
• Ensure high functioning distributed systems by defining and refining our domain models and their underlying data models in collaboration with engineering and product teams
• Challenge our business and technical status quo to help build new product capabilities by creatively changing technical strategy or overcoming constraints
• Exemplify our engineering standards/methodologies and provide exceptional technical direction to teams
• Own organizational data architecture practices, governance, and processes as well as their continuous improvement

What it requires:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, relevant experience
• 7+ years of engineering/architecture experience 
• A strong history of being a team player and driving for team success
• Experience in Agile methodologies, Data Governance, and Micro-service Architecture Design and Development
• Expertise in building and owning data models spanning multiple services and APIs, unit and integration testing, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Expertise with Azure cloud platform and available services (or equivalent AWS, GCP concepts)
• Strong expertise in database technologies (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), ETL (SSIS, Azure Data Factory, etc.), queuing, messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and modern source control (Git / Github)
• Experience with data warehouse designs sourced by multiple contributing systems
• A commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively explain technical concepts to other engineers, analysts, product managers, and team members
• Proven curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
• Willingness to adapt to change and work within a fast-paced environment

What you’ll appreciate:•Workplace flexibility – you choose between remote, hybrid or in-office.•Company paid employee medical, dental and vision•Competitive salary and success sharing bonus•Flexible vacation with no cap, plus sick time and holidays•An entrepreneurial culture that won’t limit you to a job description•Being listened to, valued, appreciated -- and having your contributions rewarded•Enjoying your work each day with a great group of people Apply TODAY!careers.questanalytics.com
About Quest AnalyticsFor more than 30 years, we’ve been improving provider network management one groundbreaking innovation at a time. 95% of America’s health plans use our tools, including the eight largest in the nation. Achieve your personal quest to build a great career here.  Visa sponsorship is not available at this time. Quest Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce environment that is free from any form of discriminations or harassment.  Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence hr@questanalytics.com
NOTE: Staffing agencies, headhunters, recruiters, and/or placement agencies, please do not contact our hiring managers directly. We are not currently working with additional outside agencies at this time.