Data Architecture Leader - Enterprise AI & Platform Strategy

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect – Data Architecture & Strategy to lead the enterprise data architecture vision and governance. This role defines principles, roadmaps, and reference architectures for data across clinical, research, operational, financial, and AI domains, while driving alignment with analytics, data products, and security teams.

As the enterprise data architecture leader, you will shape AI-ready data foundations, oversee data governance, metadata

Qualifications

• Bachelor or higher in CS, CE, IS, or related field.
• 15+ years IT/CS/IS/Data Science with depth in enterprise data architecture, cloud data platforms, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy and multi-year technology roadmap with stakeholders.
• Translate strategies into actionable data architecture direction and target-state architectures.
• Establish and govern enterprise data architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data governance

Lakehouse architectures

Cloud data platforms

Databricks

AI-ready data foundations

Education

Bachelor in CS, CE, IS, or related field

15+ years IT/CS/IS/Data Science with enterprise data architecture

7+ years enterprise data architecture at scale

3+ years Healthcare life science/academic/payer experience (preferred)

Tools

Databricks platform

Job description

Penn Medicine is seeking a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect – Data Architecture & Strategy to lead the enterprise data architecture vision and governance. This role defines principles, roadmaps, and reference architectures for data across clinical, research, operational, financial, and AI domains, while driving alignment with analytics, data products, and security teams.

As the enterprise data architecture leader, you will shape AI-ready data foundations, oversee data governance, metadata