Manager, Data Management & Architecture

Gulf Coast Automation Group•San Diego, CA

18d•$60 - $68•Remote

About The Position

TalentFish is casting a line for a Manager, Data Management & Architecture . This is a remote contract position with our premier healthcare client. The Manager, Data Management & Architecture will be responsible to implement the data management strategy and operating model within Digital Information Services.

Requirements

Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline and seven to eight (7-8) years of experience working with data management tools and platforms. OR An Associate Degree and nine to ten (9-10) years of experience working with data management tools and platforms will be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor's.
At least five years of leadership responsibility.
Broad knowledge of the field with proven leadership skills.
Must be knowledgeable of data management platforms and master data management workflows.
Technical, analytical, leadership, decision-making, problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Leadership skills include knowing how to lead a technical team including developers, analysts, and support resources.
Experience with implementing and supporting data management platforms such as Informatica, Oracle, Collibra, or Purview.
Experience in data management, business intelligence, and analytics environments.
This role requires authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience working for an academic medical center.
Understanding of SQL for data querying, data analysis, and script development.
Advanced understanding of data quality management, data governance frameworks, and compliance practices.
Experience in software development, including an understanding of programming concepts and the logic flow of applications.

Responsibilities

The Manager, Data Management & Architecture will be responsible for the management of the company's data architecture and data management infrastructure.
Work with Project Managers (PM) or Business Analyst (BA) to translate roadmap features into manageable components/tasks, estimate timings and resources, suggest solutions and identify possible risks.
Manage team projects and support deliverables by developing project plans that maintain high level of staff utilization on projects in order to meet project expectations.
Provide direction and instructions to team members on prioritization of activities.
Keep track of project details addressing issues affecting project timeline.
Maintain frequent communication with staff to understand status, issues, progress and concerns.
Ensure adherence to prescribed change management and update procedures for any alterations to the production.
Develop work plans for staff and coordinates with project team leadership to integrate these plans into larger project plans.
Communicate with users (or other managers/PMs if the project is part of a larger project) including the coordination of key milestones.
Assumes responsibility for all of the team's documentation managing the accuracy & consistency of content.
Identify opportunities to improve processes and develop internal action items as needed.
Ensure that all managed environments maintain the company's data in secure methods following best practices, allowing only authorized access to information while providing abilities to support backup, recovery and proper levels of business resumption planning with quarterly reviews of identified gaps and execution of remediation plans.
Provide accurate and well-organized verbal and written instructions.
Act as the liaison between clients, vendors and other IS Teams.
Maintains excellent relations with vendors that play an important role in existing projects and applications.
Monitor capacity demand to ensure that all required system capacity is well ahead of growth and usage requirements (Disk-space, I/O device saturation, CPU, Memory) to pro-actively plan for growth, proper software levels (patches, and release levels).
Align company's data management capabilities with business strategy.
Guides the evaluation and optimization of data management tools to advance data capabilities and operational efficiency.
Collaborates with the Data Governance team to ensure procedures are being enforced to facilitate the accuracy, reliability, and security of data within the organization.
Oversees data integration processes to facilitate a seamless data flow between systems and applications.
Prepare processes to support disaster recovery plans and ensure environments meet required availability requirements.
Evaluate existing and upcoming technology and be able to effectively incorporate them into the organization's technical environment.
Ensure that goal achievement does not come at the cost of the ICARE values.
Responsible for hiring, firing, performance appraisals, and pay reviews.