Data Architect
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- This is a full-time role (40 hours/week) for a 6-month contract, with the possibility of extending for a long-term contract
- Diagnose the underlying causes of complex data problems and drive a defensible long-term plan
- Design the target-state data architecture across legacy and modern platforms, including migration sequencing and rollout
- Define schema strategy, event-driven patterns, and scalable data lifecycle policies
- Build an actionable data roadmap for resolving core data issues with explicit tradeoff analysis
- Drive a measurable reduction in data inconsistencies introduced by new feature development
- Establish architecture standards, review practices, and documentation to preserve institutional knowledge
- Act as subject matter expert on enterprise architecture questions where data meets product strategy
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Enterprise Architecture leadership to align data architecture with platform goals
- Build technical trust with engineering and product leadership through evidence, technical debate, and collaborative problem-solving
- 8+ years of data architecture experience
- Deep expertise in target-state architectural design
- Proficiency with relational (SQL) and NoSQL data modeling, schema design, and data governance
- Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (e.g. event buses, message queues)
- Experience migrating messy, legacy, or under-schematized environments toward modern frameworks
- Experience designing cloud-native data architectures (e.g. AWS)
- Experience defining data retention, lifecycle, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies
- Ability to defend technical proposals with evidence and operate in ambiguous environments
- Strong communication skills in both spoken and written English
- Startup experience
- Experience in Healthcare, EMR/EHR, Health-Tech, or HIPAA-regulated environments
- Experience standing up a data or platform architecture function from the ground up
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent