Senior Healthcare Data Architect - Remote

Veeva Systems, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and basic.​​

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Job summary

Veeva Systems is seeking a Senior Healthcare Data Informaticist to design, manage, and maintain reference data assets in the TRL, enabling standardized, high-quality healthcare data for support of therapeutic areas and analytics.

In this senior role, you will partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to deliver scalable data solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and data governance across Compass products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Public Health, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with healthcare data systems, clinical vocabularies, coding systems, and payer data.
• Deep expertise in drug classification and coding systems (NDC, RxNorm, ATC).
• Advanced knowledge of diagnostic and procedural code sets (ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, HCPCS).
• Experience with payer data, including commercial and government payers, and a history of acting as a subject matter expert.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data modeling, transformation, and aggregation on large healthcare datasets.
• Proven ability to design, maintain, and govern complex hierarchical structures (taxonomies, ontologies, clinical groupers).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve technical challenges in healthcare data systems.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to translate complex data concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Curate, standardize, and validate medical and pharmacy claims data to ensure accuracy and usability across Compass products.
• Map drugs to indications and therapeutic areas using coding standards such as ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, NDC, RxNorm, and ATC.
• Design, maintain, and document hierarchical structures, taxonomies, and vocabularies, including therapeutic area frameworks, diagnosis/procedure groupings.
• Develop business rules, validation routines, and clinical logic to support reliable analytics and product use.
• Lead data integration and modeling efforts, applying healthcare data standards for consistent, interoperable data assets.
• Troubleshoot complex data issues, ensuring data integrity, system reliability, and adherence to regulatory requirements (HIPAA).
• Produce clear documentation (ERDs, flowcharts, sequence diagrams) to communicate processes and data solutions effectively.
• Translate complex clinical and payer data concepts into actionable insights for cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Mentor and guide junior team members to strengthen overall team capabilities.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Data transformation

Data aggregation

Collaboration

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics/Biomedical Informatics/Pharmacy/Life Sciences/Public Health or related field

Job description

Veeva Systems is seeking a Senior Healthcare Data Informaticist to design, manage, and maintain reference data assets in the TRL, enabling standardized, high-quality healthcare data for support of therapeutic areas and analytics.

In this senior role, you will partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to deliver scalable data solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and data governance across Compass products.