Data Architect

Job DescriptionJob Description Data Architect Salt Lake City, UT (Onsite 2-3 days per week/Hybrid) Contract Rate: $55.00 - $85.00per hr. Contract Duration: Up to 3 Years We are seeking a Data Architect to guide the modernization of a healthcare data platform. This person will establish scalable data architecture standards, shape the organization's data-mart strategy, and help make complex data more accessible for analytics, research, and downstream tools. Key Responsibilities Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards and best practices. Design and evolve a scalable data-mart strategy across multiple subject areas. Lead efforts to standardize metadata management and data documentation practices. Evaluate and recommend industry-standard metadata, cataloging, and data-governance tools. Help abstract complex underlying data structures into usable, well-defined datasets. Partner with data engineering teams on data models, ingestion patterns, and data accessibility. Support the broader modernization of data ingestion, storage, and consumption architecture. Advise stakeholders on data architecture decisions, standards, and long-term roadmaps. Required Qualifications Three to five years of practical data architecture experience. Experience designing data marts, analytical data models, or data warehouse structures in a relational database environment. Healthcare data domain experience, including familiarity with healthcare data standards and interoperability concepts. Strong understanding of metadata management, data modeling, and data governance concepts. Ability to define technical standards and communicate them to engineers and business stakeholders. Experience working with complex, multi-source data environments. Preferred Qualifications Experience evaluating data catalog, metadata, or governance platforms. Experience supporting cloud data platforms or hybrid on-premises/cloud architectures. Experience working with research, analytics, or large-scale longitudinal datasets.