Blue Shield of California Group is looking for a Solution Design Lead to partner with Enterprise Architects, Portfolio, Analytics, and Data Engineering teams in designing technical solutions and building data products for the enterprise. You will be responsible for driving data products by designing and implementing cloud data lakes, data warehouse, and data mart solutions.
What You'll Do
- Drive strong collaboration with business and technology stakeholders to define product strategy, business and technology requirements, use cases, and new capabilities.
- Develop and maintain technology inventory and definitions, including application reference models, guiding principles, standards, patterns, and usage guidelines.
- Design and implement cloud solutions, perform risk identification and mitigation, and provide issue management recommendations.
- Articulate best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
- Provide recommendations on designing cost effective data infrastructure that supports complex data analytics services.
- Socialize and champion technology related ideas and plans with internal IT teams and business stakeholders.
- Evangelize data and analytics solutions that benefit business stakeholders.
- Work closely with data engineers and data analyst teams, utilizing agile methodologies to plan and prioritize product backlog.
- Partner with Portfolios to enable, architect, implement and define the technical requirements, principles and models that guide data solution decisions for on-prem, cloud and hybrid ecosystem.
- Provide comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure time to market, cost impact and value are properly understood, estimated, and controlled across people, process, and technology.
- Monitor and analyze the performance of data product, identify areas of improvement or optimization to enhance the data product and its features.
What We're Looking For
- College degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
- Expert in understanding data management practices, data modelling (data vault 2.0), master data management, data integration, data architecture, data virtualization, data warehousing, data privacy and security.
- Hands on experience with SQL, Python, Collibra, Reltio Master Data Management, DBT Cloud and DBT core.
- Expert in one or more of NoSQL and database appliances and platforms (Snowflake, Synapse, Databricks).
- Prior experience in data product management is a must, including skills with creating roadmaps, converting business requirements to technical stories, feature prioritization and working collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
- Excellent Communication skills for engaging with stakeholders, facilitating discussions, and conveying complex technical concepts.
- Advance knowledge in designing solutions for large data warehouses with a good understanding of cluster and parallel architecture.
- Adept in agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, for managing product backlog, sprint planning and facilitating agile development.
- Knowledgeable of Source Control and Project Management tools like Bitbucket, Git, and JIRA.
Nice to Have
- Ability to lead and influence stakeholders while maintaining data quality standards and delivering a high-quality data product is desired.
Technical Stack
- SQL, Python, Collibra, Reltio Master Data Management, DBT Cloud, DBT core, NoSQL, Snowflake, Synapse, Databricks, Bitbucket, Git, JIRA
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Data Services team and partners with Enterprise Architects, Portfolio, Analytics and Data engineering teams. You will report to a Sr Manager, Data Solutions or Director.
Work Mode
This position follows a hybrid work model.
Our culture is built on core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service. We foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
