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ProArchData Platform Architect
ProArch is seeking a Data Platform Architect for a remote, contract-based position. In this role, the professional will shape the enterprise data platform strategy, design architecture…
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ProArch is seeking a Data Platform Architect for a remote, contract-based position. In this role, the professional will shape the enterprise data platform strategy, design architecture standards, and guide engineering teams in implementing scalable solutions that support analytics, reporting, and artificial intelligence initiatives. The ideal candidate will balance platform performance, security, and cost while reducing unnecessary platform proliferation. Core duties involve defining reference architectures, governing tool selection, and establishing operational…
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ProArch is seeking a Data Platform Architect for a remote, contract-based position. In this role, the professional will shape the enterprise data platform strategy, design architecture standards, and guide engineering teams in implementing scalable solutions that support analytics, reporting, and artificial intelligence initiatives. The ideal candidate will balance platform performance, security, and cost while reducing unnecessary platform proliferation.
Core duties involve defining reference architectures, governing tool selection, and establishing operational guidelines for deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery. The person in this role will also incorporate default data privacy controls, build standardized integration patterns for batch and streaming data, and partner with FinOps to manage platform financial efficiency. Candidates should be comfortable communicating technical concepts across various organizational levels and working within agile or waterfall frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain enterprise data platform strategies, architecture standards, and design patterns aligned with business goals and AI enablement.
- Manage and steward architecture documentation, including current and target state designs within the architecture repository.
- Evaluate, recommend, and govern the selection of ETL tools and data platforms while balancing cost, security, scalability, and performance.
- Provide technical leadership to data engineering and analytics teams to turn standards into practical solutions.
- Define guardrails for reliability, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
- Incorporate default data privacy, security controls, encryption, retention, and lineage into platform architectures.
- Establish integration patterns for batch, streaming, and event-driven data flows.
- Partner with FinOps to guide cost-efficient platform design and lifecycle management.
- Assess emerging technologies and drive innovation in AI-powered data engineering workflows.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in database engineering, including 3 or more years in database architecture design and support.
- Experience architecting enterprise data platforms across cloud environments such as Azure and Google Cloud.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake as an enterprise data warehouse platform.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern data platforms and services including Azure Data Lake, Fabric, Databricks, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- Practical experience with Matillion for ETL and ELT orchestration.
- Technical fluency in Python and SQL for prototyping, reviewing, and optimizing data pipelines and transformations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Data Science, or Information Technology.
- Familiarity with healthcare payer data domains such as claims, eligibility, member, provider, care management, and regulatory reporting.
- Experience designing API-based data integration using Apigee.
- Integration experience with enterprise systems including Salesforce, FACETS, and ServiceNow.
Core Skills
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A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field is required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A Master's degree in a related field is preferred.
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