Principal Data Architect

United StatesRemoteFull-timelead

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This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Data Architect based in the United States.

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As Principal Data Architect, you will shape the enterprise data strategy and build the foundations for trusted, secure, and AI-ready data products. You will lead architectural decisions across cloud data platforms, integrations, analytics, and intelligent automation. Working closely with business, product, engineering, security, and data science teams, you will transform complex data ecosystems into scalable solutions that support better decisions and measurable business outcomes. You will combine strategic vision with hands-on technical leadership, ensuring that data is reliable, accessible, governed, and ready for advanced analytical and AI applications. Your expertise will help modernize data infrastructure, establish enterprise-wide standards, and strengthen the organization’s ability to innovate in a complex, regulated healthcare and insurance environment.

You will define and implement enterprise data architecture that supports business priorities, operational efficiency, analytics, and long-term technology evolution. You will guide technical teams toward scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions while establishing standards that improve data quality, interoperability, and reuse.

Define and evolve enterprise data architecture, data models, integration patterns, technology standards, and long-term technical roadmaps.
Design resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud data platforms, including modern lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.
Establish canonical data models and shared business entities to ensure consistent definitions and reliable data exchange across systems.
Develop architecture patterns for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, batch and streaming processing, metadata management, lineage, quality, and observability.
Enable interoperable data products and APIs that make trusted information accessible to applications, analytics platforms, and AI systems.
Guide the integration of complex healthcare, insurance, employee benefits, employer group, claims, eligibility, provider network, and financial data.
Establish secure, governed access to sensitive information while addressing HIPAA, privacy, security, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
Build AI-ready data foundations that support machine learning, generative AI, agentic workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation.
Partner with product, engineering, analytics, and data science teams to deliver reusable data products, trusted metrics, and measurable business outcomes.
Advise senior technical and business stakeholders, influence architecture decisions, and align teams around shared technical principles.
Mentor senior engineers and data architects, promote technical excellence, and encourage accountability and continuous improvement.

Requirements

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You will bring extensive experience in enterprise data architecture and modern data platforms, along with the technical judgment needed to translate complex business challenges into practical solutions. You should be comfortable balancing long-term architectural strategy with hands-on implementation and communicating effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

At least 12 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data platforms, or a related technical discipline, including leadership of enterprise-scale architecture initiatives.
Proven experience designing and implementing modern cloud data platforms and complex data integration architectures.
Strong knowledge of data modeling, including dimensional and relational modeling, distributed data processing, data pipelines, and data platform design.
Experience with modern data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, cloud-native data services, Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies, dbt, and contemporary orchestration tools.
Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, access controls, privacy, and security.
Experience architecting data platforms that support enterprise analytics, operational applications, and AI or machine learning use cases.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, influence senior stakeholders, and build alignment across multiple teams.
Demonstrated ability to translate architecture strategy into practical implementation and measurable results.
Strong architectural judgment, strategic thinking, and a hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges.

Experience in healthcare, health insurance, employee benefits, healthcare technology, or payer and provider ecosystems.
Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards and frameworks, including FHIR, HL7, X12, and claims or eligibility data formats.
Experience managing sensitive healthcare or insurance data in regulated environments, including HIPAA compliance.
Knowledge of healthcare economics, medical and pharmacy claims, stop-loss insurance, self-funded employer health plans, or benefits administration.
Experience developing governed data products and AI-ready platforms for advanced analytics and intelligent automation.
Background in modernizing legacy data ecosystems and integrating information across acquisitions, multiple platforms, or fragmented enterprise systems.
Authorization to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship, both currently and in the future.