Senior Data Architect: Lakehouse & AI Platform Lead

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); Virginia; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is seeking a Principal Data Architect to own the data architecture across the organization. You will define standards for ingestion, modeling, governance, security, and serving of data for an AI-enabled BI platform.

Collaboration with data engineering, science, and technology teams is essential to scale the lakehouse and ensure compliant data flows. The role requires deep experience in healthcare data, cloud architectures on Azure and Databricks, and a

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology with 8+ years in data architecture or data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data reference architecture from ingestion to consumption across multi-cloud and on-premises.
• Lead EMR/EHR integration and data standards adoption, ensuring PHI protection and data governance.
• Design lakehouse architecture and end-to-end data flows using medallion patterns.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Data Modeling

Azure Databricks

FHIR/HL7

Data Governance

Cloud Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Health Informatics or a related field

Tools

Delta Lake

Azure Synapse

Airflow

Job description

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is seeking a Principal Data Architect to own the data architecture across the organization. You will define standards for ingestion, modeling, governance, security, and serving of data for an AI-enabled BI platform.

Collaboration with data engineering, science, and technology teams is essential to scale the lakehouse and ensure compliant data flows. The role requires deep experience in healthcare data, cloud architectures on Azure and Databricks, and a