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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