HBITS-08-14906-Software Architect-Expert

About the Role

The NYWIC (New York Women, Infants, and Children) system is a statewide application supporting the administration of New York’s WIC nutrition program, which provides nutritional assistance and health services to eligible women, infants, and children. This role is part of the DataMart team, responsible for the design, development, and ongoing maintenance of the enterprise data warehouse and reporting layer for the NYWIC application. The team includes Business Analysts, Data Modelers, Informatica Developers, and OBIEE Developers who collaborate to deliver and sustain data solutions.

The NYWIC MIS-EBT project provides a .NET/Oracle-based platform enabling efficient program operations and ongoing enhancements to meet evolving business needs. This resource will serve as backup support for both data modeling and ETL.

Responsibilities

• Perform data analysis of current and future WIC systems, including system comparison, to support ongoing and future data needs.
• Collaborate with customers, vendors, and technical teams to gather requirements, perform gap analysis, and prioritize reporting needs.
• Design and maintain enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, while performing ongoing data modeling and schema design.
• Define and enforce data standards, naming conventions, governance practices, and ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all environments.
• Develop and maintain documentation of business processes, workflows, and data flows using modeling techniques and flowcharts.
• Develop, review, and optimize ETL processes and mappings for data migration (Sybase, MS Access to Oracle), improving performance and efficiency.
• Design and support reporting solutions, including dashboards and prototypes, aligned with end-user requirements.
• Develop and execute test plans, scripts, and validation scenarios to ensure data accuracy and compliance with business requirements.
• Monitor and optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and overall system optimization.
• Implement and maintain database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance with organizational and state data privacy requirements.
• Evaluate implementation strategies, identify risks and issues, and support resolution and mitigation planning.
• Provide technical guidance, conduct design reviews, mentor team members, and support release planning and post-implementation reviews.
• Facilitate and document meetings, support reporting development discussions, and ensure proper tracking of outcomes.
• Perform administrative duties including attendance at meetings and completion of NYS LATS timecard and monthly timesheets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an IT field.
• Mandatory: 84+ months of experience as a Software Architect, making high-level design choices, dictating technical standards, and designing multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of large-scale software systems. Candidate must be able to provide guidance to large teams and/or have extensive industry experience.
• Requested:
  • 84 months of experience supporting OBIEE 11g/12c and Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), including development, enhancement, migrations, web catalog, RPD, and BI Publisher deployments across enterprise reporting environments.
  • 72 months of experience leading ETL teams and designing enterprise data integration architecture using Informatica, including data standards, governance, best practices, and mentoring for data warehouse initiatives.
  • 72 months of experience in Oracle database development, including advanced SQL/PL/SQL programming, performance tuning, optimization, and conversion of complex SQL, stored procedures, and SAS logic into Informatica mappings.
  • 72 months of experience administering OBIEE/OAS environments, including installation, configuration, upgrades, WebLogic administration, security setup, patching, migrations, and production support across DEV/QA/UAT/PROD.
  • 84 months of experience in OBIEE performance tuning and troubleshooting, including query optimization, cache management, RPD tuning, aggregate navigation, and report/dashboard performance improvements.
  • 48 months of experience in data modeling and system analysis, including dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schema design, source-to-target mapping, and technical design documentation for enterprise data warehouses.
  • 48 months of experience in ETL and BI testing, including test strategy development, SIT, UAT, regression testing, data validation, reconciliation, and defect resolution across BI and data warehouse systems.
  • 48 months of experience in advanced data validation and troubleshooting using SQL/PL/SQL to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across enterprise data pipelines and reporting systems.
  • 48 months of experience in end-to-end BI implementation and data governance, including requirements gathering, ETL development, semantic layer design, dashboard/report development, deployment, and enterprise data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks.