Solutions Architect

As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass General Brigham supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care, and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.

We're focused on a people-first culture for our system's patients and our professional family. That's why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Mass General Brigham is committed to aligning our employees' personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal development-and we recognize success at every step.

Our employees use the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions, and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.

The Opportunity

Mass General Brigham Digital, in partnership with the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO), is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect who has a passion for healthcare data and will thrive as a member of an experienced, high performing and highly motivated team. This person will have a desire to learn and a flexibility to adjust to the fast-changing analytic and reporting demands of our system. The best candidate has solid analytical and communication skills, and experience working with health care data.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Solutions Architecture, the Solutions Architect will be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing new clinical data products. The OCMO areas of focus include Quality, Safety, Health Equity, Community Health, Patient Experience, Provider Wellbeing, Credentialing, and Pharmacy and Formulary.

The ideal candidate will function as a technical leader of the OCMO cross-functional domain teams, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of learning and growth. They will spearhead the architectural design of OCMO data products, ensuring it aligns with established principles, address any bottlenecks to enhance velocity and data quality, and develop advance knowledge of OCMO domains. The role involves developing comprehensive architectural documentation, leading reviews and discussions to promote continuous improvement. The candidate will also oversee the training of engineers in architectural design principles and tools, accrue advanced knowledge of OCMO product domains, and maintain a high-level understanding of the data and analytic landscape at Mass General Brigham.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Functions as a Technical Lead overseeing the OCMO cross-functional domain teams; providing technical leadership and mentorship to team members, developing data products, and partnering closely with the Domain Team Lead to understand prioritization and product requirements.
• Fosters a culture of learning and growth within the development team, providing feedback, coaching, and mentoring to team members. Builds trust and collaboration among the team and across other domain teams.
• Leads the end-to-end architectural design of OCMO data products and other related platform capabilities ensuring alignment with existing design principles; identifies bottlenecks impacting our velocity and quality of our data and proposes strategies to overcome them.
• Works with the domain teams to develop the high-level and low-level architectural documentation, including diagrams, design patterns, and technical specifications.
• Stays current with industry trends, emerging technologies and large-scale system architecture, integrating relevant advancements into the work.
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves, getting involved, and diving into delivery challenges.
• Oversee training of data engineers and analytics engineers on architecture design principles and tools to build up architecture expertise within the team.
• Accrues advanced knowledge of the OCMO product domains and can quickly apply development strategies to meet the stakeholder requirements for data products.
• Builds and maintains a high-level understanding of the data and analytic landscape at Mass General Brigham including data sources, data and analytic assets and products, analytic tools and software, and master data.
• Presents technical solutions designs to OCMO development teams and other MGB Digital team members as needed.
• Supports other team members with promotion to production and ensures a consistent process across the team.
• Uses the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions, and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, informatics, statistics, or related field and an interest in healthcare and the use of technology to support clinical care.
• 3+ years of experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, or similar role.
• 1-3 years of experience with data modeling.
• Proficiency in querying complex data structures using SQL is required.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, etc.
• Epic Proficiency or Certification in Clarity / Caboodle data model or Epic applications is strongly preferred; Epic experience is required.
• Experience implementing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and transforming and modeling workflow tools, such as DBT or Informatica.
• Experience with general source control principles and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of traditional data warehousing and cloud data warehousing concepts.

Skills/Abilities/Competencies:

• Experience in building and leading a tight-knit delivery team. Experience accomplishing exceptional project outcomes in a respectful and supportive culture.
• Ability to function effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment, organize and prioritize work independently, and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, and collaborate with team members and others throughout the organization.
• Knowledge of agile principles and experience working within an agile team is preferred.
• Practical problem-solving abilities, i.e. the ability to formulate hypotheses, test options and move forward in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong customer service orientation and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Possess strong data modeling skills

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under the law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment