WHY CHOOSE ECRI?

ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:

• Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
• On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
• Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
• Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.

ABOUT ECRI

At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.

As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.

The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare

ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:

• Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
• Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
• Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.

ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.

The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.

It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Data Architecture & Engineering is responsible for translating business strategic goals into future-state data engineering and data science solutions. This includes delivery full life cycle from execution roadmaps, to implementation, and to production operations. This role drives the creation and maintenance of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, data reference architectures, and integrated data & analytics technology roadmaps that will guide our strategic investments and enterprise strategy.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactory. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s):

• Translate business strategic goals into actionable future-state data engineering and data science architectures and solutions.
• Delivery of full life-cycle Data Solutions from execution roadmaps, to implementation, and to operations. This includes a specific focus on ELT and ETL Data Pipeline solutions from inception to production.
• Lead end to end solution delivery of enterprise data warehouse, data marts, and data lake with governance.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of data storage and processing systems, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, data solutions, and integrated data & analytics technology roadmaps that will guide our strategic investments and enterprise strategy.
• Deliver architecture connecting data science, data engineering, and data analytics practices together via data integration to deliver impactful data products.
• Design, architect and execute data management, integration, and orchestration capabilities.
• Strong partnership with DevOps, business partners, engineering teams, and data management.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide solutions that meet those needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties, as assigned.

Accountability Metric(s):

• Full end-to-end delivery of data solutions from inception to production, and operationalization aligned to the ECRI data strategy and roadmaps.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in IT with a minimum (8) years in data architecture and data solutions are required.
• Successful track-record in managing a team of Data Engineers and Data Scientists
• Skilled in hybrid cloud data platforms and analytical technologies including Azure and/or GCP data infrastructure, Spark, Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Data Marts, Snowflake, Visualization BI reporting with PowerBI/Looker, Metadata Management, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Catalog, and Business Glossary.
• Experience in building Modern Data Stack that improves efficiency by focusing on business outcomes and delivers value to its customers.
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceutical industries, or related fields is preferred.
• Ability to document, communicate, implement, and operationalize complex architectures.
• Experience with ELT and ETL Data Pipeline solutions from inception to production.
• Proficient in SQL, NoSQL and columnar databases.
• Experience with Spark/Pyspark and JSON.
• Excellent grasp of Computer Science fundamentals - data structures and algorithms.
• Must have Panda Data Frames knowledge and best practices, execution engines, DAGs (airflow, dagster, luigi, etc), and Kubernetes.
• Proficient with GitLab
• Familiarity with Azure data factory preferred, Google data flow or AWS Glue
• Experience with Biomedical Informatics, S3/Azure blob store, Machine Learning and AI, Unstructured Data, and Data Democratization is preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 Suite of products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Experience with agile methodologies, Kanban preferred, and using tools like Jira and Confluence to facilitate the work.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline required. Master's degree preferred.

Certifications & Licenses:

• N/A

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This position operates in a remote environment and requires the individual to remain in a stationary position, whether sitting or standing, before a desk or other fixed workspace, most of their workday. In addition, this position requires the individual to occasionally move about their workspace to access and inspect work-related materials, such as file cabinets with physical files and standard office equipment. This position requires the ability to operate standard office equipment, including, but not limited to, a laptop, keyboard, mouse, webcam, and phone, as well as effectively communicate information and ideas to a wide variety of audiences in written and oral form.

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Equal Opportunity Employer-Disability and Veteran