Senior Staff Architect - Secure Health Data SaaS

ThermoFisher Scientific; Greenville (NC); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plans

Vision plan

Employee assistance programs

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Sr Staff Architect (SQL Database) to design secure, scalable healthcare SaaS databases handling PHI/PII with HIPAA/HITECH compliance. You will architect multi-tenant data platforms, encryption, and governance for real-time access and high availability.

You will collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams, lead data migrations with EHR/EMR integrations, and guide CI/CD practices for database changes in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive industry experience in enterprise technology, architecture, and systems management.
• 7+ years of experience in database architecture, preferably in SaaS environments
• Prior experience building data pipelines using SSIS, Azure Data Factory or similar
• Strong experience with data lake architectures (AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage)
• Proven experience designing or managing data farm / distributed data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Databricks)
• Hands‑on experience handling sensitive data (PHI, PII/PPI) in regulated environments
• Strong knowledge of HIPAA compliance, data privacy, and security frameworks
• Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and non‑relational systems such as Cosmos DB, MongoDB
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially healthcare-compliant services
• Proficiency in data encryption, key management, and RBAC
• Strong understanding of scaling strategies and distributed systems
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, multi-tenant database architectures for healthcare SaaS applications
• Develop data models and storage solutions for sensitive healthcare data (PHI, PII/PPI)
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, and other relevant regulations
• Implement data encryption (at rest and in transit), masking, and access controls
• Architect systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and auditability
• Define and enforce data governance, retention, and audit logging policies
• Optimize database performance for large-scale healthcare datasets and real-time access
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to meet regulatory requirements
• Lead data migration and integration with EHR/EMR systems and third-party healthcare platforms
• Comply best practices for secure CI/CD pipelines involving database changes
• Monitor systems for data integrity, breaches, and anomalous access patterns

Skills

Data pipeline design

HIPAA compliance

Cloud platforms

RBAC

Encryption

Multi-tenant architectures

Data governance

Handling sensitive data

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

SSIS

Azure Data Factory

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Sr Staff Architect (SQL Database) to design secure, scalable healthcare SaaS databases handling PHI/PII with HIPAA/HITECH compliance. You will architect multi-tenant data platforms, encryption, and governance for real-time access and high availability.

You will collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams, lead data migrations with EHR/EMR integrations, and guide CI/CD practices for database changes in a regulated environment.