Master Data Management

Job Description :

Responsible for translating the client's business requirements into specific systems, applications or process designs with interlocked financial modeling for very large complex technical solutions. Analyzes customer service requirements and designs service solutions to meet those objectives. Primary expert to construct the specific solution, scope document, risk profile, and corresponding financials. Maintains and utilizes detailed industry and internal services knowledge in the construction of industry-leading services solutions, including expert working level knowledge of the processes, technologies, and people components involved in the services arena. Uses expertise to construct specific and detailed solutions that encompass process, technology, and staffing plans for customer sales opportunities. Constructs risk assessments and corresponding remediation plans relative to complex services proposals. Participates in the construction of detailed financial models that align with complex services proposals. Composes Statement of Work or other documents, using departmental automation tools as available, to craft detailed and accurate deliverables that specify processes, technology, staffing, and project management involved in proposed services solutions. As needed, provide a "trusted expert advisor" role as a Subject Matter Expert for technical services, to both internal and external customers, ranging from formal advice to internal and external customer presentations. Follow all organizational Standard Operating Procedures relative to cost modeling, approvals and reviews, and all other associated workflow and deliverables.

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of one Enterprise Architect, hereafter referred to as Worker(s), who meets the general qualifications of ITSAC Enterprise Architect 2 Category, Emerging Technology Type and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Enterprise.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered works made for hire and are the property of the HHSC. HHSC may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Workers) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by the Texas law. HHSC will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Worker(s).

The Medicaid Data Architect position is an Information Technology (IT) position and will be a part Performance Management and Analytics System (PMAS) team under the Office of Chief Data Architect in Health and Human Services System s IT domain. This position is required to create data architecture(s) related to Texas Medicaid data in compliance with Texas Data Management Framework (TDMF) and HHS Data Governance (DG) policies.

The Enterprise Architect position:

Collaborates with the Office of the Chief Data Architect on initiatives related to performance analytics and data governance.

Architects cloud data hub integrations with Medicaid data and other data domain platforms.

Develops best practices and methodologies to mature TDMF best practices and capability maturities.

Develops enterprise data policy and standards that support the development of an enterprise data governance framework.

Serves as Data Architecture and Data Management expert for the HHS system, Medicaid.

Develops a detailed knowledge of the underlying HHS data assets and data products and provides subject matter expert on content, current and potential future uses of data.

Assists in development and implementation of data quality processes and metrics.

Responsible for consulting with the business owners of data assets, providers of enterprise analytics, and Information Technology leadership to develop enterprise Medicaid analytics strategy for future funding, design, and implementation

Provides expertise in data harmonization, master data development and governance, data quality, and metadata management.

Provides guidelines on creating data models and various standards relating to governed data.

Reviews changes to technical and business metadata, realizing their impacts on enterprise applications, and ensures the impacts are communicated to appropriate parties.

Establishes measures to chart progress related to the completeness and quality of metadata for enterprise information to support reduction of data redundancy and fragmentation and elimination of unnecessary movement of data; and to improve data quality.

Assists in selecting data management tools and developing the standards, usage guidelines, and procedures for using those tools.

Assists in identifying appropriate data sourcing and extraction processes, and in identifying and nominating sources as systems of record for data usage in various applications.

Assists in performing root cause analyses related to information issues and non-conformance to published data standards based on review of technical metadata of various source systems.

Building business cases to support collaborative HHS MDM efforts and adoption.

Providing subject-matter-expertise in the assessment of solution proposals and concepts related to Master Data Management; Data Quality; Data Datalogging; and Metadata management and publication.

Work with CTO office, CDA architecture team, and MCS program stakeholders to come up with Medicaid data and analytics strategy considering long term goals/objectives.

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