Enterprise Architect 3 – Medicaid Data Architecture | Austin, TX Onsite | 12+ Years Data Architecture Experience

**Location:** Austin, Texas **Duration:** September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027 (up to 2,008 hours; renewable for up to three one-year optional renewals) **Hours:** Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (excluding state holidays); may require work outside normal business hours on weekends, evenings, and holidays as requested **Interview Mode:** In person **Overview** A Texas state agency is seeking an Enterprise Architect 3 to serve as a Medicaid Data Architect within the Performance Management & Analytics System (PMAS) team. This position will be part of the PMAS Medicaid sprint team working in collaboration with the Office of Data Analytics & Performance. The architect will design and implement integrated data solutions for a multi-terabyte data integration hub implementation. The mission is to ensure curated data is visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, and uniformly governed to support integrated data analytics and enable data-driven decision making across the health and human services system. This role requires creating data architectures related to Medicaid data in compliance with the Texas Data Management Framework (TDMF) and agency Data Governance policies. The position involves translating business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for very large complex technical solutions. The architect will serve as the primary expert to construct specific solutions, scope documents, risk profiles, and corresponding financials, and will act as a trusted expert advisor and Subject Matter Expert for technical services to both internal and external customers. **Key Responsibilities** - Collaborate with the Office of the Chief Data Architect on initiatives related to performance analytics and data governance - Architect cloud data hub integrations with Medicaid data and other data domain platforms - Develop best practices and methodologies to mature TDMF best practices and capability maturities - Develop enterprise data policy and standards that support the development of an enterprise data governance framework - Serve as Data Architecture and Data Management expert for the health and human services system, Medicaid - Develop detailed knowledge of underlying data assets and data products and provide subject matter expertise on content, current and potential future uses of data - Assist in development and implementation of data quality processes and metrics - Consult with business owners of data assets, providers of enterprise analytics, and IT leadership to develop enterprise Medicaid analytics strategy for future funding, design, and implementation - Provide expertise in data harmonization, master data development and governance, data quality, and metadata management - Provide guidelines on creating data models and various standards relating to governed data - Review changes to technical and business metadata, realize their impacts on enterprise applications, and ensure impacts are communicated to appropriate parties - Establish measures to chart progress related to completeness and quality of metadata for enterprise information - Assist in selecting data management tools and developing standards, usage guidelines, and procedures for using those tools - Assist in identifying appropriate data sourcing and extraction processes and nominating sources as systems of record - Perform root cause analyses related to information issues and non-conformance to published data standards - Build business cases to support collaborative Master Data Management efforts and adoption - Work with CTO office, Chief Data Architect team, and program stakeholders to develop Medicaid data and analytics strategy considering long-term goals/objectives - Work with program areas and project sponsor to plan and execute multiple analytics projects asynchronously - Explain project findings and data limitations in simple, non-technical language to agency leadership and program staff - Develop and refine effective AI prompts and query strategies to retrieve and synthesize Medicaid data for complex data domains - Develop a library of standardized prompts and query templates for common reporting needs - Provide subject matter expertise on validating output from AI, particularly with respect to identifying and mitigating hallucinations - Ensure all data outputs adhere to agency reporting standards, data governance, and compliance regulations - Promote a data-driven culture by enabling and empowering all staff to effectively utilize data and AI - Stay up to date on new AI and data analytics tools and techniques to continuously improve program competencies - Work closely with data engineering, IT, and Program teams to troubleshoot data-related issues and address inconsistencies and mitigation strategies - Provide expert guidance to program staff on interpreting data trends and answering complex data questions - Translate client business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs with interlocked financial modeling for very large complex technical solutions - Analyze customer service requirements and design service solutions to meet those objectives - Construct specific solutions, scope documents, risk profiles, and corresponding financials - Construct risk assessments and corresponding remediation plans relative to complex services proposals - Participate in the construction of detailed financial models that align with complex services proposals - Compose Statement of Work or other documents to craft detailed and accurate deliverables that specify processes, technology, staffing, and project management involved in proposed services solutions - Follow all organizational Standard Operating Procedures relative to cost modeling, approvals and reviews, and all other associated workflow and deliverables **Required Qualifications** - 12+ years of excellent understanding of Data Architecture principles, capabilities, and best practices with the proven ability to define, document and apply standards and best practices - 12+ years of experience with business processes, data management, data flows, data relationships, data quality standards and processes, and proficiency with data analytical and quality tools - 10+ years of extensive experience in working with Medicaid data; specifically in the areas such as provider claims & encounters as well as client movements and clinical assessments - 8+ years of experience in building and maintaining a Medicaid Data Warehouse - 8+ years of extensive architecture experience and knowledge in the areas of Reference Data, Data Quality, Metadata Management - 8+ years of experience leading and evolving corporate culture to a data driven organization - 8+ years of communication, analytical and interpersonal skills at all levels **Preferred Qualifications** - 5+ years of experience designing/implementing data acquisitions for Master Data Management, Data Warehouse or other Performance Management system - 5+ years of experience with public health care or Insurance business domain - 5+ years of proven ability to work successfully with technical and non-technical groups and manage multiple responsibilities - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience (4+ years) - Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) from DAMA (1+ year) **Work Location & Requirements** - Primary work location is 4601 W. Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 78751 - Position is onsite at the location listed above (no remote work) - Local candidates only; must already reside in Texas (out-of-state candidates planning to relocate will not be accepted) - All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the agency - May include pre-selection requirements that potential vendors and their candidates submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law - Must sign an Acceptable Use Agreement as a condition of employment - Must sign and return an Information Technology Staff Augmentation Contractor Integrity Agreement before a purchase order is issued - Must sign and return an Information Security Cybersecurity Training Acknowledgement before a purchase order is issued - Vendor must conduct a criminal history investigation of the worker and provide the results to the agency prior to the issuance of any purchase order - Any and all travel, per diem, parking, and/or living expenses shall be at the candidate's and/or vendor's expense - May be required to work remotely at agency discretion, up to 100 percent of the time - May be required to work outside normal business hours on weekends, evenings and holidays, as requested