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Kaiser Permanente · 1 month ago

Database Architect/Management V - Azure Databricks

California-Oakland-Ordway

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is a leading healthcare organization seeking a Database Architect/Management V specializing in Azure Databricks. The role involves consulting with stakeholders to develop database models and schemas, ensuring data availability and security, and driving strategic data-informed decisions through effective database management and architecture.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback

Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and evaluating recommendations made by others

Designs, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by partnering with stakeholders to advise in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; designing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate

Drives efforts to ensure data and resources are available to users in an orderly and secure way through data provisioning and ongoing security by translating business analytics needs into data access requirements; creating, preparing, and enabling systems to provide data to users; granting users access to data repositories or systems, applications, and databases based on a unique user identity; managing and monitoring data access on an ongoing basis; tracking and documenting version control; designing and generating tracking and monitoring tools; tracking and reporting on data access; and ensuring data provisioning efforts adhere to IT compliance standards, policies, and procedures

Provides ongoing database support, maintenance, and troubleshooting by identifying and fixing problems; locating and correcting oversights; ensuring the database meets expectations; identifying trends in the database users; ensuring optimized database performance; recommending new ways to improve the existing database; and scheduling times for upgrades and repairs for minimal impact to the company

Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients and leadership to identify and clarify key business needs across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing complex analysis plans; evaluating the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; partnering with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables

Analyzes and develops database designs, data models, and relational data definitions in support of systems requirements by assessing the current data infrastructure; identifying areas in need of change; determining how the database should look and function; scoping the database using the ETL Architecture Standards; developing code to create the database; creating database security standards; and testing and maintaining data integrity across multiple internal and/or external databases

Drives data strategy efforts by ensuring proper identification and representation of content; determining optimal data storage methodologies; ensuring data are packaged in a way to be reused and shared; developing and ensuring adherence to data rules and access guidelines; determining best strategy for combining data residing in disparate systems into a unified, consistent data view; and establishing, managing, and communicating information policies and mechanisms for effective data usage

Qualification

Database ArchitectureData ManagementData ProvisioningData Visualization ToolsStatistical ProgrammingProject ManagementVendor ManagementDelegationNegotiation

Required

Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports

Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in database configuration, architecture or management, or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Negotiation; Data Extraction; Data Visualization Tools; Statistical Programming Language; Relational Database Management; Vendor Management; Delegation; Project Management

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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