App Dev & Support Engineer III/ Data Architect /Data Governance Lead

About Conduent :
Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments – creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference, and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect / Data Governance Lead to support and evolve a large-scale Medicaid Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) environment. This role is responsible for enterprise data architecture, data modeling, metadata management, lineage, business glossary ownership, and governance processes, with a strong emphasis on administering and expanding our Dataedo metadata repository.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical architecture expertise with hands-on metadata governance experience and can work effectively with business stakeholders, analysts, ETL developers, DBAs, and project leadership.

This position plays a critical role in ensuring trusted, well-documented, scalable, and compliant data assets that support operational reporting, analytics, regulatory reporting, and strategic decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Modeling

- Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models for the Medicaid EDW.

- Define architecture standards for ODS, integration, dimensional, and reporting layers.

- Lead source system onboarding into the EDW, including claims, eligibility, provider, encounters, finance, and other Medicaid domains.

- Review new initiatives for data impacts, scalability, integration patterns, and downstream reporting implications.

- Recommend improvements to warehouse performance, data structures, and overall platform architecture.

Metadata Management / Dataedo Administration

- Administer and enhance the enterprise Dataedo platform.

- Maintain data dictionaries, table/column definitions, business glossary, lineage, and stewardship assignments.

- Build and govern source-to-target mapping documentation.

- Ensure metadata standards are followed across projects and support teams.

- Publish user-friendly documentation portals for business and technical users.

Data Governance & Lineage

- Establish governance processes for definitions, ownership, approvals, and change management.

- Maintain end-to-end lineage from source systems through ETL pipelines to reporting assets.

- Support impact analysis for schema changes, source changes, and reporting requests.

- Partner with data owners and SMEs to standardize KPI and metric definitions.

Medicaid / Regulatory Support

- Support reporting and traceability requirements for Medicaid operations and regulatory reporting.

- Help ensure data assets meet privacy, security, and compliance requirements including HIPAA.

- Assist with audit requests requiring data lineage, documentation, and control evidence.

Cross-Functional Leadership

- Partner with ETL developers, BI teams, analysts, QA teams, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

- Mentor technical staff on modeling standards, documentation expectations, and governance practices.

- Participate in roadmap planning, release planning, and architecture reviews.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- 7+ years of experience in data warehousing / enterprise data management.

- 5+ years in a Data Architect, Senior Data Modeler, or similar leadership role.

- Hands-on experience with metadata management tools, preferably Dataedo .

- Strong experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar.

- Strong SQL skills.

- Experience designing enterprise data models, dimensional models, and integration layers.

- Experience documenting lineage and source-to-target mappings.

- Experience working in regulated environments r