Solutions Architect (Data)

Centene Corporation • Remote-MO, MO

1d • $75,300 - $135,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

Contributes to the design of data integration, processing, reporting, and analytics. Executes strategies for warehouse implementation, data acquisition and access, and data archiving and recovery. Develops data platform specific capabilities and roadmaps, works closely with the Data Strategy Architect, analyzes high-level requirements, constructs workflow charts and diagrams, studies system capabilities, writes specifications, process modeling, organization modeling, and use cases. Plans, develops, and participates in all activities related to the integration of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions to meet the business requirements of the organization. Documents and integrates architecture guidelines, standards, and common services to support project integration requirements. Recommends new data sources, platforms, and tools for adherence to the organization's data strategy, quality standards, and ease of integration. Provides technical guidance for data and analytics products and platforms. Provides subject matter expertise regarding information architecture. Develops and enforces the data architecture standards, working with Business, Application, and Operations counterparts to assure data integrity and consistency. Maintains documentation that maps data models to information systems and business applications. Partners with Strategy, Enterprise, and Information Architecture teams to enable enterprise data modernization initiatives. Focus on turning strategy into delivered business capabilities while ensuring governance, reuse, and platform alignment. Define the architecture for data ingestion, integration, storage, analytics, reporting, security, governance, and operational support. Ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards. Coordinate intake, discovery, requirements clarification, and stakeholder alignment across business, product, engineering, and platform teams. Translate business outcomes into implementable data and analytics solutions. Manages data dictionary to improve documentation and coordination. Assists in building of enterprise architecture information blueprints and data models that illustrate how information is stored, processed, and accessed in the enterprise. Participates in data architecture, data sourcing, data flow, and solution discussions for data initiatives. Participates in enterprise information architecture discussions around needs and alignment to enterprise goals. Collaborates on data-related business requirements and perform data architecture reviews. Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all policies and standards.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and requires 2 – 4 years of related experience.
• Equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Nice To Haves

• Solution Architecture experience
• Data Pipeline Integration, Data Governance experience
• Data Catalog, Metadata, Lineage experience
• Experience with Extract Transform Load (ETL); (Informatica, Talend)
• Experience with OLAP: Snowflake, Teradata, Databricks
• Cloud Services (AWS, Azure)
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence (Power BI, other tools)
• OLTP Databases (MS, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres)
• Application Development (Python, C#, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the design of data integration, processing, reporting, and analytics.
• Executes strategies for warehouse implementation, data acquisition and access, and data archiving and recovery.
• Develops data platform specific capabilities and roadmaps.
• Works closely with the Data Strategy Architect, analyzes high-level requirements, constructs workflow charts and diagrams, studies system capabilities, writes specifications, process modeling, organization modeling, and use cases.
• Plans, develops, and participates in all activities related to the integration of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions to meet the business requirements of the organization.
• Documents and integrates architecture guidelines, standards, and common services to support project integration requirements.
• Recommends new data sources, platforms, and tools for adherence to the organization's data strategy, quality standards, and ease of integration.
• Provides technical guidance for data and analytics products and platforms.
• Provides subject matter expertise regarding information architecture.
• Develops and enforces the data architecture standards, working with Business, Application, and Operations counterparts to assure data integrity and consistency.
• Maintains documentation that maps data models to information systems and business applications.
• Partners with Strategy, Enterprise, and Information Architecture teams to enable enterprise data modernization initiatives.
• Define the architecture for data ingestion, integration, storage, analytics, reporting, security, governance, and operational support.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Coordinate intake, discovery, requirements clarification, and stakeholder alignment across business, product, engineering, and platform teams.
• Translate business outcomes into implementable data and analytics solutions.
• Manages data dictionary to improve documentation and coordination.
• Assists in building of enterprise architecture information blueprints and data models that illustrate how information is stored, processed, and accessed in the enterprise.
• Participates in data architecture, data sourcing, data flow, and solution discussions for data initiatives.
• Participates in enterprise information architecture discussions around needs and alignment to enterprise goals.
• Collaborates on data-related business requirements and perform data architecture reviews.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Benefits

• competitive pay
• health insurance
• 401K
• stock purchase plans
• tuition reimbursement
• paid time off plus holidays
• a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level