Technical Lead

The Technical Lead developer is responsible for leading development on Strategic Data initiatives across the enterprise. This position is responsible for the technical execution like design, development, testing, and deployment of IT solutions. In addition to that focus on the end to end delivery of portfolio / program and projects by leading the People, Process and Technology.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily focus on execution of Data strategic initiatives end to end, ensure stability and operationalizing it.
• Exploit agile methodology in delivering projects
• Formulate, negotiate upstream, downstream SLA and OLA with partners and implement them. Triage incidents and service requests and plan execution. Follow IT process (FIFO) for execution and work with business partner to escalate any change in priority.
• Successful delivery of the projects and enable EDM team to provide solutions through project execution.
• Manage the metrics of key data initiatives managed by EDM team.
• Provide end to end delivery focus and provide leadership, proactive engagement on projects.
• Collaborate on project priorities, schedules, deliverables and status reports with business & IT partners.
• Serve as development liaison to IT & business as needed.
• Provide leadership on the Data projects by serving as a Scrum master.
• Practice and advocate agile methodology across all projects.
• Keeping the transparent communication about project delivery and milestones as a scrum master and setting an example.
• Provide high level technical direction for the development, design, integration.
• Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements.
• Manage creation of technical artifacts including data and ETL design. Involve in architecture, design (data and ETL) review and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
• Understand the environment, development practice and standards adopted within the team and suggest changes wherever possible.
• Ensure delivery of artifacts for the tasks analysis, development, peer reviews and testing.
• Follow policies set for governance, compliance, security & infrastructure and change management.
• Partner with Business and formulate, own and practice and advocate data governance policies and standards to ensure accuracy, validity, reusability and consistent definitions of Medica data.
• Develop standards, process flows and tools that promote and facilitate the mapping of data sources, documenting interfaces and data movement across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
• 7 years of work experience beyond degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing and delivering complex data development initiatives and managing small development team.
• Strong implementation experience and deep knowledge in any one of the following three areas and knowledge of the other 2 areas at a minimum. Implementation experience in all the 3 areas preferred: ETL, Data Integration, Data Governance and Data Quality
• Deep knowledge of the strategic business drivers and operational process requirements within at least one industry such as Health Insurance, Financial services, High Tech, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, or similar industry. Must be able to link industry specific business requirements to EDM capability requirements.
• Experience with conceptualization, design and assistance in the implementation of new and existing systems, middleware, MDM, metadata, data quality, data warehouse and production architectures
• 5+ years of experience preferred in SQL and Oracle PL/SQL
• 2+ years of experience in healthcare environment.
• 5+ years of Informatica or other ETL (DataStage, Ab Initio, open source) experience
• 5+ years in Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing methodology
• Knowledge in SAS programming is a plus.
• In depth experience and knowledge in ETL / ELT, performance tuning and designing optimized integration systems.
• Extensive experience in creating integration process for Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, database performance, RDBMS, and Query tools.
• Extensive experience with Health Care Data domain knowledge and process preferred.
• In depth experience in running data initiatives using agile methodology preferred.
• Certification in Agile methodology and ITIL foundations is a plus.

This position is a hub-based role which requires onsite presence. Frequency is determined by business need as decided by leadership and may be up to 2-3 days a week. To be eligible for consideration, candidates must reside within a commuting distance to our Minnetonka, MN or Madison, WI offices.

The full salary range for this position is $98,400 - $168,600. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for incentive plan compensation in addition to base salary. Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.