Healthcare Data Architect & Analytics Leader (Remote)

C-HIT; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Benefits

Remote Working Options

Paid Time Off

PTO cash-out

Training/Certification opportunities

401K Match & Profit sharing

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Holidays

Job summary

C-HIT, Columbia, MD, is seeking a Data Analyst to design and maintain enterprise data architecture for healthcare data, align with CMS standards, and enable API/streaming integrations. The role emphasizes governance, quality, and collaboration with architects, developers, QA, and security teams.

Responsibilities include data modeling, analytics, and ensuring data contracts for real-time exchanges, while supporting audits and program integrity efforts in a fast-paced, compliant environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture and/or data analysis.
• Strong experience with data modeling (ER, dimensional, normalized models).
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis techniques.
• Experience working with large enterprise data environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise data architecture for structured and semi-structured healthcare data.
• Define logical, conceptual, and physical data models.
• Establish data standards, naming conventions, and metadata management practices.
• Support event-driven and API-based data architectures.
• Align data architecture with CMS interoperability mandates (FHIR, HL7).
• Analyze large healthcare datasets to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies.
• Support fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) detection efforts through data analysis.
• Develop analytical datasets and data marts for reporting and investigations.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.
• Support data design for API Gateway integrations (MuleSoft or similar).
• Ensure data consistency across Kafka streaming pipelines and batch sources.
• Define data contracts and schemas for real-time data exchange.
• Validate data transformations and mappings across source and target systems.
• Implement data governance, lineage, and stewardship practices.
• Monitor and improve data quality, accuracy, and completeness.
• Support data audits, validations, and remediation efforts.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, CMS, FISMA, and NIST standards.
• Design and support reports, dashboards, and analytics for program integrity and operations.
• Support ad-hoc data requests from investigators and oversight teams.
• Work closely with architects, developers, QA, and security teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and data design reviews.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data models, mappings, and architecture decisions.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling (ER, dimensional, normal

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

MuleSoft

Kafka

AWS

Job description

C-HIT, Columbia, MD, is seeking a Data Analyst to design and maintain enterprise data architecture for healthcare data, align with CMS standards, and enable API/streaming integrations. The role emphasizes governance, quality, and collaboration with architects, developers, QA, and security teams.

Responsibilities include data modeling, analytics, and ensuring data contracts for real-time exchanges, while supporting audits and program integrity efforts in a fast-paced, compliant environment.