Senior Cloud Data Architect — Healthcare Data Platform Remote

ELLKAY; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Employer-paid Life and LTD

401k with matching

Remote work options

Flexible working hours

Paid Volunteer Program

Gym membership / stipends

Parental Leave

Free daily lunches

Job summary

ELLKAY is seeking a Senior Database & Cloud Data Architect to define and govern our database and cloud data architecture across the Data Platform, Data Lake, and product data stores. You will guide migrations, establish standards, and ensure secure, scalable solutions across Snowflake, AWS, and relational stores.

You will collaborate with Product Architecture, Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security, and Migration teams to drive data models, data lifecycle, and cost optimization while

Qualifications

• Define enterprise database and cloud data architecture.
• Develop logical, conceptual, and physical data models for core healthcare and platform domains.
• Establish standards for relational, analytical, operational, and cloud-native data stores.
• Define usage patterns for Snowflake, Amazon RDS/Aurora, object storage, caching, search, NoSQL, and other data technologies.
• Design raw, standardized, curated, semantic, and product-serving data layers.
• Define database design, naming, schema-management, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and performance standards.
• Establish data lifecycle, retention, archival, deletion, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Define data security standards, including encryption, access controls, masking, tokenization, auditability, PHI protection.
• Develop canonical data models and reusable domain patterns to reduce schema fragmentation.
• Guide migration from legacy and on-premises databases to AWS and cloud platforms.
• Define migration patterns, including validation, reconciliation, rollback, and cutover controls.
• Review and approve critical database and data-platform designs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Architecture, Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security, Governance, Migration, and application teams.
• Identify performance, reliability, data-integrity, and cost risks and define remediation plans.
• Create reference architectures, decision records, modeling standards, and architecture checklists.
• Maintain hands-on depth to build proofs of concept and support teams with complex data issues.

Skills

Database architecture

Data modeling

AWS

Snowflake

Data security

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

ELLKAY is seeking a Senior Database & Cloud Data Architect to define and govern our database and cloud data architecture across the Data Platform, Data Lake, and product data stores. You will guide migrations, establish standards, and ensure secure, scalable solutions across Snowflake, AWS, and relational stores.

You will collaborate with Product Architecture, Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security, and Migration teams to drive data models, data lifecycle, and cost optimization while