Data Architect / Data Modeler
$63K-$110K (Glassdoor est.)
Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together

Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,400 customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

We are looking for a seasoned Data Architect/Modeler who has strong prior experience designing data architecture for large scale and complex business applications. You will be part of an enterprise data architecture team that works closely with our product managers and application developers to create scalable and extensible data architectures that supports the application’s business requirements.

Key Responsibilities
Partner with Product Management and Engineering to understand product/customer requirements.
Must be able to lead both high level and detailed data design discussions to arrive at suitable model and architecture.
Create and update conceptual and logical data models to define high level business concepts and their relationships to one another
Create and update physical data models for specific database servers, e.g. Oracle, Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake etc
Influence development teams to pro-actively design and document their data as a part of the SDLC
Qualifications
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Math, Business, Engineering, or Science.
10+ years of professional experience working in software design as a Data Architect / Data Modeler.
Experience creating extensible data models that support business requirements.
Ability to identify ambiguity in requirements and work with stakeholders to improve precision of requirements.
Experience leading teams to a solution, able to make appropriate trade-offs.
Solid understanding of Normal Forms, expert SQL writer
Expertise with drawing ER diagrams for large complex business applications.
Expertise with database servers from both relational and NoSQL vendors. Know the tradeoffs between relational and NoSQL platforms.
Strong verbal & written communications skills with excellent vocabulary and appreciation for semantics.
Nice to haves but not required...
Experience designing schema for ERP, eCommerce, life science and clinical EDC applications.
Experience designing schema for SaaS and Multi-tenant applications
Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.

Medidata’s solutions have powered over 14,000 clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.

Medidata Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Medidata Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Medidata Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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