Cloud Data Architect

Role Description

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 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
• Technical certification (or comparable): Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
• Preferred technical certification (or comparable): Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

Requirements

• 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 skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting
• Experience working with healthcare datasets

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

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.

Employment Conditions

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.