Senior Data Platform Architect - Enterprise Scale & AI/ML

NextGen Federal Systems; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGen Healthcare is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to provide architectural leadership across data domains and drive the design of enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics and AI/ML systems.

This role will define standards for data lakehouse, streaming, and batch processing, lead cross-team design efforts, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with security and governance teams to ensure regulatory adherence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Or, any combination of education and experience which would provide the required qualifications for the position.
• 12+ years of experience designing and scaling enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture standards for data lakehouse, streaming, and batch processing systems.
• Lead cross-team design and delivery of complex data platform initiatives.
• Establish best practices for data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and platform scalability.
• Serve as technical escalation point for high-complexity data challenges.
• Drive platform reliability, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• Partner with security, compliance, and governance teams to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Mentor senior engineers and shape engineering best practices across teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic adoption.
• Perform other duties that support the overall objective of the position.

Skills

Cross-team leadership

Strategic decision-making

Large-scale architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Data Science / AI

Combination of education and experience acceptable

Job description

NextGen Healthcare is seeking a Sr. Staff Data Engineer to provide architectural leadership across data domains and drive the design of enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics and AI/ML systems.

This role will define standards for data lakehouse, streaming, and batch processing, lead cross-team design efforts, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with security and governance teams to ensure regulatory adherence.