Remote Director of Healthcare Data & Architecture

opala; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Opala is a health-tech startup delivering data-driven healthcare solutions. We seek a Director of Data to lead the data organization, partnering with our CTO to execute a scalable data strategy across payer and provider ecosystems. This remote U.S.

role focuses on building unified patient records, governance, and interoperable data platforms that power our product analytics. You will mentor data engineers and analysts, shape the data roadmap with product teams, and drive robust analytics to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare data, with deep understanding of payer and provider data ecosystems.
• Extensive experience with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, X12) and clinical data formats.
• Proven track record of working with EMR systems, claims data, and clinical workflows.
• Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory landscape (HIPAA, HITECH, FDA, CMS requirements).

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data architectures that integrate payer data, health exchange data, and provider systems into unified golden records.
• Lead the technical strategy for mapping diverse healthcare data sources to industry standards like HL7 FHIR, ensuring interoperability.
• Architect, implement and optimize data pipelines for batch and real-time data integrations to data APIs and platforms.
• Drive technical decisions around Databricks implementation, balancing development velocity, cost, and operational excellence.
• Establish data governance frameworks and operationalize data quality, lineage, and documentation.
• Guide data integration capabilities from SFTP to Delta Sharing to EMR integrations.

Skills

Healthcare data

Data architecture

Databricks

Python

SQL

Spark

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Job description

Opala is a health-tech startup delivering data-driven healthcare solutions. We seek a Director of Data to lead the data organization, partnering with our CTO to execute a scalable data strategy across payer and provider ecosystems. This remote U.S.

role focuses on building unified patient records, governance, and interoperable data platforms that power our product analytics. You will mentor data engineers and analysts, shape the data roadmap with product teams, and drive robust analytics to