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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

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and 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.

The following technical certification (or comparable) is required:

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

The following technical certification (or comparable) is preferred:

• Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• 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

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. 

Salary Range 

$118-$150,872/Annually 

Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity. 

An excellent fringe benefit package accompanies the salary, which includes:  

• 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