WHY CHOOSE ECRI?
ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
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Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
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On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
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Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
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Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
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Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
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Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
ABOUT ECRI
At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.
The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare
ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:
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Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
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Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
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Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.
It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.
POSITION SUMMARY
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The Data Architect role will require an individual with a primary specialization in MDM architecture to help design the next generation of data management, platforms, and pipelines that advance ECRI’s mission of delivering safe, high-quality, evidence-based healthcare worldwide.
This person will be asked to leverage creativity and results-oriented critical thinking to tackle complex challenges — from modernizing data models to designing robust pipelines and data warehouse architectures. They will apply their knowledge of gold, silver, and bronze layers, modern cloud technologies, and best practices in logical data modeling to ensure our data ecosystem is secure, scalable, performant, and ready for the future.
This role will collaborate closely with IT Platform & Software Engineers in a healthy work-life balance environment that combines the innovation of a startup with the stability of ECRI’s 50-year mission to make healthcare safer for all. |
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
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To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. |
Essential Functions:
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Architect and implement scalable MDM solutions that support mastering various domains such as customer, company, product, and vendor data across the enterprise. |
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Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to define Master Critical Data Elements (MCDEs), data lineage, and transformation logic. |
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Design and maintain authoritative data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) and hierarchies, including legal and business views, aligned with ECRI’s evolving operational and analytics needs. |
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Lead the design, development, testing, and documentation of data ingress/egress, schemas, and related streaming/batch processing data pipelines. |
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Guide data warehousing strategies, ensuring proper logical modeling, metadata management, and efficient data storage for gold, silver, and bronze layer architectures |
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Collaborate with data engineers and platform teams to design robust ETL/ELT pipelines (batch and streaming) using cloud-native tools |
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Ensure data architecture meets non-functional requirements, including high availability, scalability, performance, resiliency, security, disaster recovery, and backups |
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Lead the design, development, testing and documentation of data models, schemas, and related streaming/batch processing data pipelines and business logic |
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Review, author and curate technical stories and solutions in support of business requirements |
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Efficiently communicate complex ideas, learn from others, and adopt standards |
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Creative problem-solver with strong communication skills |
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Contribute to driving multi-functional projects forward by working closely with business partners |
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Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, system and database administration |
Additional Responsibilities:
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Other duties, as assigned. |
Accountability Metrics:
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As determined by supervisor |
