Job Summary:
Alliance Health is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to design and implement scalable enterprise-wide data architecture. The role involves optimizing data performance and accessibility, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security, while leading the adoption of modern data architecture patterns and cloud-native solutions.
Responsibilities:
• 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
• Define future-state data architecture roadmaps aligned to organizational strategy and modernization initiatives
• 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
• 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
• 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:
Required:
• 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.
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
• 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
Preferred:
• Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Company:
Alliance Health is the managed care organization for publicly funded behavioral healthcare services. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Fayetteville, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.