Solutions Architect

The Ohio State University; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health insurance

Paid time off

Loan forgiveness program

Job summary

The Ohio State University seeks a Solutions Architect to lead enterprise data and analytics architecture across health system shared services. You will define target-state architectures, standards, and guardrails for secure, scalable data platforms supporting analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases.

You will partner with clinical leaders, analytics teams, data governance, and platform teams to translate business requirements into sustainable architecture, establishing reusable reference

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of relevant experience; 8–12 years preferred in data architecture, data engineering, warehousing, analytics engineering, or modern data platform design.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture and standards for data ingestion and integration (ETL/ELT).
• Evolve lakehouse architecture using Azure services and Databricks including Delta Lake patterns.
• Establish medallion architecture and data product design across ingestion, standardization, and downstream consumption.
• Define enterprise data modeling, transformation standards, and semantic layers (dbt, star schemas).
• Establish data quality, observability, and governance including SLAs/SLOs and lineage.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cloud knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / IS / Analytics / Engineering

Tools

Azure Databricks

dbt

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title: Solutions Architect Department: Health System Shared Services | Analytics Center of Excellence

Position Summary

The Solutions Architect serves as a top-level technical authority and architectural lead for complex enterprise data and analytics initiatives that align technology capabilities with clinical, operational, and strategic priorities. This role defines the target-state architecture, standards, patterns, and guardrails for secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective data platforms that support analytics, reporting, interoperability, and advanced AI/ML use cases.

This position partners closely with clinical and operational leaders, analytics teams, data engineering, data science, data governance, platform teams, security, vendors, and IT stakeholders to translate business capabilities and data requirements into sustainable enterprise architecture.

The Solutions Architect provides architectural oversight across the data lifecycle - ingestion, integration, transformation, modeling, storage, security, deployment, observability, and consumption - while establishing reusable standards and reference architectures. Recognized across the organization for expertise in data architecture, cloud and lakehouse strategy, engineering standards, governance, performance, and platform modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture, reference patterns, and technical standards for data ingestion and integration (ETL/ELT) using technologies such as SQL and Python, ensuring solutions can support high-volume, high-complexity healthcare data.
• Own and evolve the target-state lakehouse architecture using Azure services and Databricks, including architectural patterns for Delta Lake, scalability, workload isolation, performance optimization, resiliency, and cost management.
• Establish architectural standards for medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold), including clear responsibilities for ingestion, standardization, integration, curated semantic data products, and downstream consumption.
• Define enterprise data modeling and transformation standards using dbt (or equivalent) and proven modeling practices, including dimensional modeling, star schemas, conformed dimensions, semantic layers, and reusable data products.
• Establish enterprise data quality, reliability, and observability architecture, including standards for automated testing, reconciliation, SLA/SLO monitoring, anomaly detection, lineage, metadata, and data contracts.
• Define CI/CD architecture and release-management standards for data platforms, pipelines, and dbt projects, including Git-based workflows, automated quality gates, environment promotion, and deployment patterns using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent technologies.
• Partner with reporting & analytics, data science, data governance, security, and platform systems & architecture teams to define trusted data access patterns, semantic standards, and self-service capabilities that accelerate insight delivery while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction for security and privacy, identity and access, performance optimization, scalability, availability, disaster recovery, interoperability, and cloud cost management.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, architecture decision records, technical standards, data contracts, integration patterns, and architectural roadmaps; guide engineering teams in applying approved patterns consistently.
• Coordinate architecture decisions across medical center and university entities; evaluate emerging technologies, external tools, and strategic partners through proofs of concept and architecture assessments to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and long‑term technology strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6 years of relevant experience required. 8-12 years of relevant experience preferred of progressive experience in data architecture, data engineering, data warehousing, analytics engineering, or modern data platform design, including responsibility for technical design decisions and standards.

• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise data architectures, integration patterns, data platforms, and scalable data solutions across multiple systems and business domains.
• Demonstrated experience architecting solutions with Azure cloud data services and Databricks or comparable cloud-based data platform technologies.
• Strong knowledge of lakehouse architecture, including Delta Lake, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), data product design, scalability, resiliency, and workload management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data modeling and data warehousing principles, including dimensional modeling, star schemas, conformed dimensions, semantic layers, and curated data domains.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python, dbt, or equivalent technologies sufficient to evaluate solution designs, establish engineering patterns, review implementations, and provide technical guidance.
• Experience defining data quality, reliability, observability, and operational standards, including testing, reconciliation, monitoring, validation, SLAs/SLOs, and architecture governance.
• Strong knowledge of data lineage, metadata management, security and privacy architecture, performance optimization, cloud cost management, data governance, and enterprise architecture practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influence cross‑functional teams, and establish standards that guide implementation across the enterprise.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, influence cross‑functional teams, and establish standards that guide implementation across the enterprise.

Additional Information

• An array of retirement plan options, each with a generous employer contribution.
• Affordable health insurance options, including dental, vision and prescription coverage that begin on day one.
• Paid vacation and sick leave, including short and long‑term disability and paid parental leave.
• Get the most out of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
• And much more!

Location: University Hospital - Doan Hall (0089) Position Type: Regular Scheduled Hours: 40 Shift: First Shift

Final candidates are subject to successful completion of a background check. A drug screen or physical may be required during the post offer process.

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