Senior Data Modeler

Sanford Health; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health system is seeking a Senior Data Modeler to architect and govern their enterprise data modeling framework. You'll work on data structure designs to support organizational strategy and scalability. The ideal candidate will possess significant experience in data modeling, particularly in healthcare, and be proficient with SQL and modeling tools. This role promotes collaboration and quality data capture across functions and offers opportunities for innovation in data architecture.

Benefits

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Generous time off package

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience in data modeling and database design.
• Must be proficient in data modeling tools.
• Experience in healthcare analytics or related fields is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern enterprise data modeling framework.
• Design schemas for data lakes and data warehouses.
• Lead cross-functional technical discussions.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Data warehousing principles

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Erwin

ER/Studio

PowerDesigner

Job description

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.

Facility: Remote NE (Central Time)
Location: Remote, NE
Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $40.00 - $66.00
Pay Info: Pay starts at $40 and increases according to years of applicable experience.

Job Summary

The Senior Data Modeler is responsible for architecting, governing, and advancing the enterprise data modeling framework to ensure data structures support organizational strategy, scalability, and analytic maturity. Provides expert-level leadership across conceptual, logical, and physical modeling and ensures data assets are accurate, consistent, reusable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. Champions data modeling best practices, improves enterprise data quality, and shapes the long-term direction of data architecture. The Senior Data Modeler leads collaboration with data architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business rules and analytical requirements into robust conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Designs and governs high-quality data structures using advanced normalization, dimensional modeling, star schema design, and domain-driven design. Produces and maintains detailed Entity–Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across data ecosystems.

Provides authoritative oversight and approval for enterprise-wide data models, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, data governance policies, and Technology Solutions (TS) and Architecture COE principles. Will establish, refine, and enforce modeling standards, patterns, and best practices used across the organization to include comprehensive data dictionaries, metadata and data flow documentation. Ensures data models adhere to healthcare security and regulatory requirements (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR, etc.). Design schemas for data lakes and data warehouses (star, snowflake, normalized, denormalized).

Leads cross-functional technical discussions, serving as a mediator and subject matter expert to ensure data modeling needs are accurately understood and implemented. Contributes to the evolution of healthcare-based enterprise data models, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals. Will collaborate closely with principal data architects to influence data architecture decisions and strategic direction.

Strengthens data modeling discipline across applications and business areas, ensuring high-quality data capture and data pipeline alignment. Must anticipate and identify opportunities for optimization, modernization, and innovation in data modeling and propose enhancements to align with industry advancements. Partners with data engineers, data architects and data analysts to resolve integration challenges.

Will mentor and develop data modelers, engineers, and analysts, promoting modeling excellence and knowledge sharing across teams. Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data models for platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, and similar cloud-based database systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and architectural integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in computer science, management information systems, or related field.
• Minimum of five years of experience in data modeling, database design and development, systems or applications development, or related field.
• Must be proficient in data modeling tools such as Erwin, ER/Studio, PowerDesigner, or other similar tools.
• Proficiency with SQL, strong understanding of data pipeline and data warehousing principles and concepts is required.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in data modeling and design within the health insurance or health care industry is preferred.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) and healthcare analytics platforms (e.g., Epic Caboodle).
• Understanding of data lake and lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, and MDM principles.
• Familiarity with BI/analytics tools and data science needs.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [e-mail].

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0248341
Job Function: Information Technology
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