Cloud Data Architect

Our healthcare client in Seattle is looking for a highly motivated, technology expert in Cloud Data Platform Solutions. In this role, you'll design the state-of-art data sciences driven data roadmap as part of our new data strategy. You will work closely with the architecture team and influence the technical direction of solutions on data and analytics initiatives working collaboratively with product owners, managers and engaging with business users. You will build, own and oversee the overall data architecture across all products. You'll be responsible for keeping the pulse of the market, anticipating where it's heading, and influencing the technology and vision at in order to continue improving patient care as the space evolves.As a Data Architect, you will be responsible for driving innovation, data strategy and architecture across a wide range of new and existing capabilities. You will develop, optimize and oversee conceptual and logical data architecture and integrations across multiple internal and external products. You will collaborate closely with enterprise architecture, engineering, data and analytics teams to design and implement business-critical enterprise data solutions. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in data analysis, data modeling and data engineering with significant experience advocating solutions in cloud-native real-time data management platforms. The successful Architect will be able to drive high priority data initiatives using Azure and AWS. The role will also extend into some Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence concepts.

• Be the technical expert in designing solutions for data platform and AI roadmaps, overseeing deployment of long term strategic data products and infusing key data and analytics services in applicable areas of business and IT
• Build cloud native microservices architecture for data with focus on IaaS, metadata driven frameworks and dataops
• Design, build and own data models, data flows, and integration patterns for the data lake leading to completion of future state model
• Support data engineers in building and managing conceptual, logical and physical models of data architecture
• Build high priority prototypes in a cloud platform and demonstrate value and feasibility of the solutions and architecture
• Be involved in all project phases and drive data architecture initiatives
• Holistically look at the Healthcare technology market and our product suite to determine where the industry is heading and ensure we are moving in the right direction
• Work closely with the Architecture and Product Management teams to inform the direction of our roadmap
• Engage with strategic customers and ensure their future needs and vision are top of mind
• Closely follow and influence the healthcare technology space as a thought leader through research, writing and attending or presenting at conferences
• Share your findings internally and externally, and spread the word about what we are doing to support patient care with technology

• You have roughly ten years of hands-on experience in architecting solutions at scale for data engineering
• You possess solid experience building solutions and services in Azure/AWS cloud platforms [stack includes but not limited to : (e.g. ADF, Big Data, Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure ML, Synapse Analytics, Cognitive Services, EMR, Glue, Redshift, Sagemaker, Airflow, Snowflake, Containers, PowerBI etc.)
• You have experience designing data structures and models for a microservices environment, data lake and cloud data warehouses and supporting downstream applications based on Tableau, PowerBI and ML models
• You have experience with big data platforms, SQL & no SQL databases
• You are comfortable working within a scaled agile program and collaborating with product managers in creating and managing technical backlog of stories and epics
• You are proficient in scripting languages - Python, Spark and R
• You have experience with orchestration and automation of data pipelines to build devops model
• You have a strong background in healthcare technology and understand both payer and provider business models
• You are familiar with enterprise healthcare systems and EHRs, and how they integrate with other products and solutions
• You are strong communicator individually, in groups and in presentations with a vision for how technology can enable and improve healthcare