Senior Principal Data Architecture & Strategy Architect

Penn Medicine; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine seeks a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect – Data Architecture & Strategy to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and strategy across clinical, research, operational, financial, and AI domains. This role shapes future-state data ecosystems, standards, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with Data & Analytics leadership and stakeholders.

The architect translates strategy into reference architectures, technology investments, and reusable patterns for scalable,

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a relevant field and 15+ years IT with enterprise data architecture experience.
• 7+ years data architecture at enterprise scale with lakehouse, governance frameworks, and data product architecture contributions.
• 3+ years Healthcare Life Science experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, future-state architecture vision, and multi-year technology roadmap in partnership with Data & Analytics leadership and business stakeholders.
• Translate business, clinical, research, operational, analytics, and AI strategies into actionable data architecture direction, target-state architectures, and technology investment recommendations.
• Establish and govern enterprise data architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns for data integration, storage, modeling, sharing, and consumption.
• Lead the development of enterprise architecture guidance and strategic direction for modern data platforms, including lakehouse architectures, cloud data platforms, Databricks, metadata management, data quality, lineage, and data catalog capabilities.
• Define enterprise Data Product architecture standards, operating principles, and reusable architectural patterns that enable scalable, interoperable, governed, and discoverable Data Products.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, Data Product, AI, and engineering leaders to align architecture, platform, and product roadmaps while promoting enterprise-wide consistency, interoperability, and reuse.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards and governance forums, providing architectural oversight and guidance for major data initiatives, technology investments, and strategic programs.
• Lead technology assessments and platform evaluations for data, analytics, governance, integration, and AI technologies, providing evidence-based recommendations for adoption, standardization, and investment decisions.
• Establish architectural foundations for AI-ready data, including data quality, semantic models, metadata frameworks, ontology and knowledge architectures, feature engineering, and model-ready data capabilities.
• Partner with enterprise data governance stakeholders to advance data classification, master data management, lineage, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance frameworks for enterprise data assets.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership by developing architecture roadmaps, strategic recommendations, technology assessments, and executive-level briefing materials that support enterprise decision-making.
• Mentor architects and advance enterprise data architecture maturity through coaching, architecture practice leadership, standards development, and continuous evaluation of emerging data, AI, cloud, and regulatory trends.

Skills

Data Architecture

Cloud Platforms

Data Governance

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor of Arts or Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Information Systems

15+ years Information Technology/CS/IS/Data Science

7+ years Enterprise Data Architecture at scale

3+ years Healthcare Life Science experience

Tools

Databricks

Lakehouse

Data Catalog

Job description

Penn Medicine seeks a Senior Principal Enterprise Architect – Data Architecture & Strategy to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and strategy across clinical, research, operational, financial, and AI domains. This role shapes future-state data ecosystems, standards, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with Data & Analytics leadership and stakeholders.

The architect translates strategy into reference architectures, technology investments, and reusable patterns for scalable,