Data Architect

Responsibilities:

Data Strategy & Architecture 

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture strategy and roadmap
• Design scalable architecture for the Databricks Lakehouse environment
• Establish data modeling standards and reference architectures; explore adoption across other healthcare clusters
• Guide data integration patterns across healthcare systems
• Drive data solutioning for new and existing use cases
• Evaluate new technologies and make strategic recommendations to leadership on what new technologies should be adopted
• Evaluate vendor-proposed / provided architectures, including validation of vendor deliverables against standards, and providing sign-offs on vendor solutions.

Data Governance & Quality

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide data governance framework that spans across different data platforms
• Establish and maintain data quality standards and monitoring approaches
• Define metadata management strategies
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations
• Design data lineage and cataloguing solutions

Technical Implementation & Operations

• Guide implementation of data pipelines using Informatica IDMC and Spark
• Review and implement data operations best practices
• Monitor and optimise data workflow performance

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead team of assigned resources as required
• Collaborate with Data Engineering Lead on infrastructure needs
• Mentor team members on best practices
• Drive knowledge sharing and documentation
• Lead committee(s) as and where required

Requirements

• 8+ years of data architecture experience
• 5+ years of healthcare industry experience
• Proven experience leading data engineering teams
• Ability to balance technical excellence with practical implementation
• Technical skills in the following areas:
  • Databricks Lakehouse Architectures
  • Informatica IDMC
  • Apache Spark and Python
  • Healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR)
  • Data modeling and design
  • SQL and Data Warehousing
  • Data security and compliance frameworks