The Cloud Data Architect is responsible for design and implementation of scalable enterprise-wide data architecture. These responsibilities include optimizing data performance and accessibility, and ensuring data quality, integrity and security.
This position is full-time remote. Selected candidate must reside in North Carolina and be willing to travel to the home office (Morrisville, NC) for onsite team meetings as needed.
Responsibilities & Duties
Data Architecture Design and Modelling
Lead adoption of modern data architecture patterns and cloud-native solutions
Develop enterprise data management strategies including data lake/warehouse implementations, data movement, and data services
Enforce data quality, security, and consistency standards across enterprise data platforms
Establish data access patterns (serving layers, semantic models, APIs) to optimize downstream analytics and reporting
Participate in business analysis activities to elicit data product requirements
Enterprise Data Platform Strategy
Lead adoption of modern data architecture patterns and cloud-native solutions
Define future-state data architecture roadmaps aligned to organizational strategy and modernization initiatives
Develop enterprise data management strategies including data lake/warehouse implementations, data movement, and data services
Enforce data quality, security, and consistency standards across enterprise data platforms
Data Engineering Enablement
Define reference architectures, coding standards, and reusable patterns for data engineering teams
Review and approve solution designs to ensure adherence to enterprise data architecture standards
Provide technical mentorship and design guidance to engineers and analysts
Data Governance & Security
Participate in data governance council and provide input on data standards and policies to ensure data quality, security, and compliance
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to implement data classification, encryption, access controls, and audit logging
Ensure data architectures comply with HIPAA, and organizational data privacy standards
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
Capture end-user requirements and align technical solutions to strategic business objectives
Translate business needs into scalable, secure, and well-governed data architecture solutions
Provide architectural expertise and leadership guidance to data engineering teams
Minimum Requirements
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and at least five (5) years of experience working as a Cloud Data Architect with direct involvement and responsibilities for architecting an enterprise-scale data Lakehouse or data warehouse on a Microsoft Azure cloud platform, preferably in a healthcare setting.
Certifications
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
Preferred certification: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Architecting enterprise-scale Medallion data platforms on Microsoft Azure
Databricks Development and Administration
Data modeling: dimensional (Kimball), star/snowflake, and SCDs
Enterprise governance frameworks for data quality, lineage, and metadata
PySpark and SQL skills for scalable batch and streaming pipelines
Azure Data Services: ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Synapse
DevOps, Git and CI/CD best practices
Architectural artifacts & documentation (e.g., technical specs, data models, policies, procedures, architecture diagrams)
Agile methodology and tools
HIPAA/HITECH compliance in cloud architectures
Technical leadership skills
Communication and organizational skillsAbility to work independently and in a team setting
Experience working with healthcare datasets
Employment for this position is contingent upon a satisfactory background and credit check, which will be performed after acceptance of an offer of employment and prior to the employee's start date.
Salary Range
$116,011-$147,914/Annually
Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity.
Fringe Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long Term Disability
Generous retirement savings plan
Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
Dress flexibility
Education
Bachelors or better in Computer Science
Bachelors or better in Other
Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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