Senior Data Modeler

Careers With Purpose Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world‑class health care in America’s heartland. Facility: Stevens Center Building Location: Sioux Falls, SD Address: 900 East 54th St N, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts Job Schedule: Full time Weekly Hours: 40.00 Salary Range: $40.00 - $66.00 Pay Info: Pay starts at $40 and increases according to years of applicable experience. Job Summary The Senior Data Modeler is responsible for architecting, governing, and advancing the enterprise data modeling framework to ensure data structures support organizational strategy, scalability, and analytic maturity. Provides expert‑level leadership across conceptual, logical, and physical modeling and ensures data assets are accurate, consistent, reusable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. Champions data modeling best practices, improves enterprise data quality, and shapes the long‑term direction of data architecture. The Senior Data Modeler leads collaboration with data architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business rules and analytical requirements into robust conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Designs and governs high‑quality data structures using advanced normalization, dimensional modeling, star schema design, and domain‑driven design. Produces and maintains detailed Entity‑Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across data ecosystems. Provides authoritative oversight and approval for enterprise‑wide data models, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, data governance policies, and Technology Solutions (TS) and Architecture COE principles. Establishes, refines, and enforces modeling standards, patterns, and best practices used across the organization, including comprehensive data dictionaries, metadata and data flow documentation. Ensures data models adhere to healthcare security and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA and GDPR. Designs schemas for data lakes and data warehouses (star, snowflake, normalized, denormalized) and leads cross‑functional technical discussions, serving as a mediator and subject matter expert. Contributes to the evolution of healthcare‑based enterprise data models, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals, and collaborates closely with principal data architects to influence data architecture decisions and strategic direction. Strengthens data modeling discipline across applications and business areas, ensuring high‑quality data capture and data pipeline alignment. Anticipates and identifies opportunities for optimization, modernization, and innovation in data modeling and proposes enhancements aligned with industry advancements. Partners with data engineers, data architects and data analysts to resolve integration challenges. Mentors and develops data modelers, engineers, and analysts, promoting modeling excellence and knowledge sharing across teams. Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data models for platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, and similar cloud‑based database systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and architectural integrity. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree required in computer science, management information systems, or related field. Minimum of five years of experience in data modeling, database design and development, systems or applications development, or related field. Proficiency in data modeling tools such as Erwin, ER/Studio, PowerDesigner or other similar tools. Proficiency with SQL and strong understanding of data pipeline and data warehousing principles and concepts. Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Strong problem‑solving skills and attention to detail. Experience in data modeling and design within the health insurance or health care industry is preferred. Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud and healthcare analytics platforms such as Epic Caboodle. Understanding of data lake and lakehouse architectures. Experience with data governance, data quality, and MDM principles. Familiarity with BI/analytics tools and data science needs. Benefits Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full‑time and part‑time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home‑work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call View phone number on click.appcast.io or send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io. Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre‑employment background screening as a condition of employment. Req Number: R-0257716 Job Function: Information Technology Featured: No #J-18808-Ljbffr