Data Analyst Child Welfare Practice (REMOTE)

Lead Data Specialist - Child Welfare Practice Location: Jackon, MS (remote) Duration: 1 year Position type: Contract Objective MDCPS seeks an experienced professional to participate in planning and execution of data cleansing and data migration initiatives and concurrently participate in development of data models, data stack architecture, technical implementation and other critical functions of data management that will enable evidence based Child Welfare Practice at MDCPS. Position Summary This position is full-time (40 hours weekly) and requires an individual to participate as a significantly contributing team member on the MDCPS Data Management Team (DMT). The near-term scope of this team and this position includes participating in data related migration and design activities on the replacement of legacy case management system with the new CCWIS Cloud-Based hosted solution, and additional to that, planning and implementation of cloud-based data stack to enable robust and actionable analytics capabilities at MDCPS. This individual will be reporting to the lead architect on DMT. Major Responsiblities Support and participation in Identification and management of data-related issues / risks and gaps Understanding, conceiving and documenting source and target-state data architectures for applications and cloud- based data analytic platforms Data Pipeline Design and Implementation Development of subject matter expertise in business drivers, business semantic meaning and business practice when providing data management services. Design and Development of ETL architecture and technical work packages Deliver on measurable improvements of data quality metrics Entity Relationship Diagramming, Business Vocabulary, Data Dictionary, Multi-Dimensional Models, Semantic Models Data mapping specifications for migration from large legacy database to new case management application, entity relationship diagrams, data base schema, data dictionary, transformation lineage, business vocabulary/semantic models. Data Set Catalogue Planning and Implementation. Provisioning and managing meta data in the data stack Identifying business rules for complex business metrics and coding calculations for those metrics. Semantic model design and development with time series, hierarchical/drill down views for child welfare metrics Mandatory Requirements • Eight (8) years of experience with Multidimensional Model Data Base Design, ETL design and development. • Eight (8) years of experience with data quality and master data management integration. • Eight (8) years of experience with ERD's, business vocabulary, data dictionary and database schema mapping. • Eight (8) years of data analytic implementation projects • Three (3) years of experience with cloud-based data stack tool and platforms • Excellent English-speaking skills, written communication skills, and knowledge transfer skills