AI-Ready Data Lakehouse Architect

2000 Montefiore Health System, Inc.; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Montefiore Health System, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior Data and AI Architect to lead the design of an AI-ready data Lakehouse and enterprise data architecture.

You will establish governance, data models, and integration standards to support clinical, operational, and administrative questions across the health system. You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable data products and enable AI initiatives while ensuring data security and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in modern Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Acquisition, Data Integration, Data Lake/Lakehouse, Data Warehousing, Data Products, Data Governance and Data Standardization.
• Deep expertise translating complex clinical, operational and administrative datasets into enterprise-grade data products, data modeling techniques and performance analysis & tuning.
• Experience with scalable data architectures accommodating large data volumes and varieties, including data warehousing and data lakes.
• Familiarity with cloud ELT tools and platforms, like Matillion, dbt cloud, Python, and Snowflake.
• Knowledge of data security, privacy, and healthcare data regulation best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Montefiore's data strategy and enterprise data architecture roadmaps.
• Lead data governance, data management, models, integration patterns, quality, and privacy across domains.
• Design AI-ready, scalable Lakehouse architectures supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Establish modern data patterns (medallion, data mesh, data fabric) and cloud-native platforms for analytics, ML, and generative AI workloads.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and stakeholders to translate needs into scalable data solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data modeling

AI/ML concepts

Leadership

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Oracle

SQL Server

Matillion

dbt Cloud

Python

Job description

Montefiore Health System, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior Data and AI Architect to lead the design of an AI-ready data Lakehouse and enterprise data architecture.

You will establish governance, data models, and integration standards to support clinical, operational, and administrative questions across the health system. You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable data products and enable AI initiatives while ensuring data security and