Health Data Architect: Unified Platform & AI-ready

WebMD; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer

Life and Disability Insurance

EAP

Commuter/Transit Benefits

Job summary

WebMD is seeking a Data Architect to design a unified data layer that underpins analytics for the Health vertical, including WebMD, Medscape, PulsePoint, and affiliates. You will architect scalable data access, governance, and metadata strategies to support data-driven decision making.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, migrate existing pipelines to a centralized framework, and ensure privacy and regulatory compliance in healthcare data environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture or related fields.
• Enterprise-scale data platforms experience across multiple products.
• Data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and modern data warehouse solutions.
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and services.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata, and privacy regulations (HIPAA).
• Experience with healthcare data ecosystems and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design a common data access layer across Health brands, ensuring scalability and privacy.
• Lead automated data analytics processing for efficiency and quality.
• Define data architecture blueprints and metadata management approaches.
• Migrate pipelines, dashboards, and reports to the centralized framework.
• Enforce data standards, governance, and modeling best practices.
• Evaluate data technologies and platforms to support large-scale integration.
• Advise on on-prem vs cloud-based data processing for various use cases.
• Collaborate with Health stakeholders to align data initiatives with business goals.
• Guide implementation with Data Engineering teams and ensure security compliance.
• Provide leadership in architecture reviews, performance tuning, and scalability planning.

Skills

Data Architecture

Enterprise-scale platforms

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

HIPAA compliance

Healthcare data

Real-time data

Data science integration

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Kafka

Kinesis

AWS

Azure

GCP

Governance tools

Job description

WebMD is seeking a Data Architect to design a unified data layer that underpins analytics for the Health vertical, including WebMD, Medscape, PulsePoint, and affiliates. You will architect scalable data access, governance, and metadata strategies to support data-driven decision making.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, migrate existing pipelines to a centralized framework, and ensure privacy and regulatory compliance in healthcare data environments.