Conduent is a provider of mission-critical services and solutions for Fortune 100 companies and governments. They are seeking an experienced Data Architect / Data Governance Lead to support and evolve a large-scale Medicaid Enterprise Data Warehouse environment, focusing on data architecture, metadata management, and governance processes.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models for the Medicaid EDW
- Define architecture standards for ODS, integration, dimensional, and reporting layers
- Lead source system onboarding into the EDW, including claims, eligibility, provider, encounters, finance, and other Medicaid domains
- Review new initiatives for data impacts, scalability, integration patterns, and downstream reporting implications
- Recommend improvements to warehouse performance, data structures, and overall platform architecture
- Administer and enhance the enterprise Dataedo platform
- Maintain data dictionaries, table/column definitions, business glossary, lineage, and stewardship assignments
- Build and govern source-to-target mapping documentation
- Ensure metadata standards are followed across projects and support teams
- Publish user-friendly documentation portals for business and technical users
- Establish governance processes for definitions, ownership, approvals, and change management
- Maintain end-to-end lineage from source systems through ETL pipelines to reporting assets
- Support impact analysis for schema changes, source changes, and reporting requests
- Partner with data owners and SMEs to standardize KPI and metric definitions
- Support reporting and traceability requirements for Medicaid operations and regulatory reporting
- Help ensure data assets meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements including HIPAA
- Assist with audit requests requiring data lineage, documentation, and control evidence
- Partner with ETL developers, BI teams, analysts, QA teams, DBAs, and business stakeholders
- Mentor technical staff on modeling standards, documentation expectations, and governance practices
- Participate in roadmap planning, release planning, and architecture reviews
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of experience in data warehousing / enterprise data management
- 5+ years in a Data Architect, Senior Data Modeler, or similar leadership role
- Hands-on experience with metadata management tools, preferably Dataedo
- Strong experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience designing enterprise data models, dimensional models, and integration layers
- Experience documenting lineage and source-to-target mappings
- Experience working in regulated environments requiring strong controls and documentation
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience supporting Medicaid, healthcare, MMIS/MES, payer, or public sector data environments
- Experience with ETL tools such as Informatica, SSIS, IICS, Talend, or similar
- Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Cognos, or Business Objects
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or Google Cloud
- Knowledge of HIPAA, PHI handling, and healthcare data governance
- Experience leading data governance councils or metadata programs