Principal Data & AI Platform Architect – Azure Databricks
United Vein & Vascular Centers
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Job summary
United Vein & Vascular Centers (UVVC) in Tampa, FL, is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead architecture, governance, and optimization of the enterprise data platform. You will design scalable data pipelines, medallion data products, and semantic models to enable trusted self-service analytics and AI-driven insights across UVVC.
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring collaboration with Security, Compliance, and business data owners to ensure HIPAA-aligned data solutions.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in data engineering/architecture with production Databricks ownership
- Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Databricks
- Strong SQL and Python for data pipelines and analytics
- Experience in HIPAA-compliant data environments and data governance
Responsibilities
- Design and govern enterprise data platforms across Azure (ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Databricks)
- Lead data modeling and Delta Lake/Medallion architecture implementation
- Establish DataOps practices: testing, version control, monitoring, CI/CD
- Collaborate with Security, Compliance and business data owners to ensure HIPAA alignment
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Job description
Tampa, Florida, United States
Reporting to the Senior Director of Data & AI, the Senior Data Architect is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the architecture, engineering, governance, and optimization of UVVC’s enterprise data platform. This role will define technical standards and design scalable data pipelines, medallion data products, semantic models, and governed analytics solutions that enable trusted self-service analytics and AI-driven insights across UVVC.
- Design, build, and optimize batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines and reusable ingestion frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Databricks across APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, and internal systems.
- Build scalable Delta Lake transformation frameworks using medallion architecture, Spark, and SQL.
- Implement CI/CD, parameterization, triggers, and pipeline automation best practices.
- Architect, manage, and optimize enterprise data environments across Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2), Azure SQL, and Databricks, including serverless and classic compute strategies, cost governance, and workload isolation strategies.
- Implement DataOps practices including testing, version control, monitoring, and documentation.
- Design and administer the enterprise Unity Catalog structure, including catalogs, schemas, external locations, storage credentials, groups, service principals, and ownership models.
- Implement least-privilege access, governed tags, attribute-based access-control policies, row-level filters, and column-level masking for PHI, PII, financial, and other sensitive information.
- Establish standards for data classification, lineage, auditability, stewardship, retention, certification, and access reviews.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Privacy, and business data owners to ensure data solutions align with HIPAA and organizational security requirements.
- Govern tables, views, volumes, functions, metric views, dashboards, models, and Genie Agents through Unity Catalog.
- Design and develop Databricks AI/BI Dashboards and domain-specific Genie Agents for clinical, operational, financial, RCM, marketing, and executive use cases.
- Configure trusted datasets, joins, business terminology, instructions, example queries, dimensions, measures, synonyms, and approved KPI definitions.
- Develop and govern Unity Catalog metric views and semantic definitions to ensure consistent reporting across Databricks AI/BI and Power BI.
- Establish testing and monitoring processes for Genie Agent accuracy, data grounding, security, explainability, performance, and user adoption.
- Ensure that AI-generated results respect Unity Catalog permissions and approved business definitions.
- Design and implement enterprise-grade Databricks Lakehouse Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers).
- Define and enforce data engineering standards, naming conventions, and architectural patterns across all pipelines.
- Lead the architecture of Delta Lake design patterns, including partitioning, optimization, and data lifecycle management.
- Establish scalable serverless and classic compute strategies, job orchestration frameworks, and workspace organization.
- Evaluate and implement new Databricks capabilities and ensure alignment with enterprise data strategy.
- Work closely with clinical, sales, marketing, finance, RCM, operations, HR, and IT teams to understand business needs.
- Provide technical guidance on data engineering patterns and platform capabilities.
- Clearly communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions to data stakeholders and leadership.
- Develop conceptual, logical, dimensional, and physical data models supporting clinical, operational, financial, marketing, RCM, and workforce analytics.
- Establish conformed dimensions, master and reference data standards, governed KPIs, and reusable semantic definitions.
- Reduce conflicting calculations and duplicate business logic across Databricks AI/BI, Power BI, and downstream applications.
- Establish data-quality rules, reconciliation controls, data SLAs, pipeline observability, alerting, incident response, and root-cause-analysis processes.
- Define standards for schema evolution, change data capture, late-arriving data, historical tracking, retries, and recovery.
- Monitor and optimize Databricks consumption using system tables, workload tagging, budget controls, query profiling, serverless and classic compute selection, SQL warehouse configuration, and data-layout optimization.
- Establish cost allocation and accountability by environment, data product, department, and workload.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or cloud data platforms, including demonstrated ownership of production Databricks architecture.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience within data engineering or architecture teams.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory, including pipelines, mapping data flows, Integration Runtime configuration and management, triggers, and monitoring.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure Databricks, including notebooks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow Jobs, Lakeflow pipelines, and workflow orchestration.
- Advanced SQL expertise, including complex transformations, dimensional and semantic modeling, query-plan analysis, Delta Lake optimization, Databricks SQL, and SQL warehouse performance tuning.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and PySpark for data engineering, reusable framework development, automation, testing, and performance optimization.
- Deep expertise in Medallion Lakehouse architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and Delta Lake optimization techniques.
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise Databricks environments across development, testing, and production, including security, governance, deployment, performance, and cost management responsibilities.
- Strong understanding of Databricks Unity Catalog, data governance, and security models.
- Strong understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII safeguards, least-privilege access, data retention, auditability, and secure healthcare data integration.
- Experience defining data platform standards, frameworks, and best practices
- Experience with AI/ML workflows, feature engineering, or model enablement.
- Experience integrating data across EHR/EMR, CRM, patient-engagement, contact-center, marketing, finance/ERP, HRIS, and revenue-cycle platforms.
- Experience designing enterprise data models and governed KPIs for healthcare operations, including patient volume, referrals, scheduling, conversion, provider productivity, revenue cycle, payer performance, denials, collections, labor, and clinic-level financial performance.
- Familiarity with real-time processing (Structured Streaming) within Databricks.
- Experience with master data management, reference data, and entity-resolution strategies across patients, providers, locations, payers, legal entities, and acquired practices.
UVVC, is a leading provider of comprehensive vein and vascular care with over 60 clinics across Arizona, Illinois, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and expanding. Our mission is to revolutionize vascular care by delivering an all-inclusive clinic experience that addresses every aspect of lower extremity vein, vascular, and wound conditions.
United Vein & Vascular Centers (UVVC) is distinguished by its innovative approach to diagnosing and treating a variety of vascular conditions that affect the pelvis and lower extremities. With a team of committed specialists, cutting-edge medical technology, and a patient-centric approach that emphasizes minimally invasive procedures, UVVC ensures superior care and optimal outcomes for it’s patients.
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