Senior Healthcare Data Architect: Analytics & Interoperability

Valley Health System; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental & vision insurance

Paid Time Off

Tuition assistance

Retirement savings match

Employee assistance program

Wellness program

HSA/FSA options

Job summary

Valley Health System seeks a Senior Data Architect to design and govern enterprise data architecture supporting analytics, BI, and clinical decision-making. You will model data, architect integrations, and ensure HIPAA-compliant, scalable solutions across EHR/EMR, claims, and regulatory data.

Lead collaboration with data engineers, BI teams, and stakeholders, while ensuring data quality and security in cloud and on‑prem environments. Strong healthcare data skills required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field is required.
• 7+ years of experience designing/implementing enterprise data warehouse solutions.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, CCD) and clinical data warehouses such as Epic Caboodle/Clarity.

Responsibilities

• Designs and maintains data architectures (cloud and on‑prem) supporting analytics, reporting, and operations.
• Creates conceptual, logical, and physical data models reflecting business needs.
• Oversees ETL pipelines and data integration across diverse sources.
• Defines data governance, metadata, and quality frameworks with HIPAA and ONC/CMS alignment.
• Collaborates with data engineers, BI developers, analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Implements data security controls and compliance measures.
• Normalizes data using SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CPT, RxNorm for interoperability.
• Monitors and optimizes performance and documents data lineage and best practices.

Skills

SQL

Python

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

HIPAA compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

SSIS

Informatica

Epic Caboodle

Clarity

Job description

Valley Health System seeks a Senior Data Architect to design and govern enterprise data architecture supporting analytics, BI, and clinical decision-making. You will model data, architect integrations, and ensure HIPAA-compliant, scalable solutions across EHR/EMR, claims, and regulatory data.

Lead collaboration with data engineers, BI teams, and stakeholders, while ensuring data quality and security in cloud and on‑prem environments. Strong healthcare data skills required.