Data Architect

Job Overview

Informatics at Fortrea is a high profile, high impact team that focuses on creating innovative data-driven solutions to improve the speed, cost, and quality of drug development.

Summary Of Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural vision for Fortrea’s data architecture, data integration and master data management strategies.
• Design and implement core ETL workflows for Fortrea’s information integration and reporting infrastructure.
• Participate in the design and development of high-performing, scalable and maintainable data repositories for analytic purposes.
• Participate in the full development cycle from product inception, research and prototyping to release in production.
• Measurably impact company performance by delivering high quality, scalable data products.
• Supervise external resources.
• All other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications (Minimum Required)

• BSc/MSc in computer science, information systems, life sciences, or similar.
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements

Competencies

• A passion for innovating with data sciences at scale; applying modern technologies to large data sets and creating measurable business value.
• Obsessive attention to detail, passion for the end-user experience.
• General problem-solving skills, versatility.
• Collaborative mindset, team spirit.

Experience (Minimum Required)

• 8+ years of designing ETL processes, designing data transfer and synchronization schemes, and implementing complex ETL workflows.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks is highly preferred
• Solid understanding of operational and dimensional database models, including logical and physical design using SQL Server, Oracle, or similar.
• Experience delivering data to staging environments, data warehouses and data marts.
• Experience with master data management approaches, tools, and design patterns.
• Proficiency in database programming using T-SQL, PL/SQL, or similar.
• Proficiency in query performance tuning.
• Proven ability to take ownership and lead a project with minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with strong written and verbal presentation.

Preferred

• Experience in pharmaceutical R and D, clinical development and/or healthcare IT, and working knowledge of standard medical terminologies, coding systems and data standards.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, including Solr, MongoDB, CouchDB, or similar.
• Familiarity with Hadoop or other distributed data stores and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with semantic web, OWL, RDF.
• Programming skills in C#.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

• N/A

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