Data Architect

Data Architect

Salt Lake City, UT (Onsite 2-3 days per week/Hybrid)

Contract Rate

$55.00 - $85.00per hr.

Contract Duration

Up to 3 Years

We are seeking a Data Architect to guide the modernization of a healthcare data platform. This person will establish scalable data architecture standards, shape the organization's data-mart strategy, and help make complex data more accessible for analytics, research, and downstream tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards and best practices.
• Design and evolve a scalable data-mart strategy across multiple subject areas.
• Lead efforts to standardize metadata management and data documentation practices.
• Evaluate and recommend industry-standard metadata, cataloging, and data-governance tools.
• Help abstract complex underlying data structures into usable, well-defined datasets.
• Partner with data engineering teams on data models, ingestion patterns, and data accessibility.
• Support the broader modernization of data ingestion, storage, and consumption architecture.
• Advise stakeholders on data architecture decisions, standards, and long-term roadmaps.

Required Qualifications

• Three to five years of practical data architecture experience.
• Experience designing data marts, analytical data models, or data warehouse structures in a relational database environment.
• Healthcare data domain experience, including familiarity with healthcare data standards and interoperability concepts.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data modeling, and data governance concepts.
• Ability to define technical standards and communicate them to engineers and business stakeholders.
• Experience working with complex, multi-source data environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience evaluating data catalog, metadata, or governance platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud data platforms or hybrid on-premises/cloud architectures.
• Experience working with research, analytics, or large-scale longitudinal datasets.