[Hiring] Principal Data Architect @UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING

Role Description

The Principal Data Architect is the senior individual contributor accountable for data architecture across UNOS Data, AI and Analytics. The role owns the end-to-end architecture for the UNOS data intelligence platform: a lakehouse that unifies clinical, operational and financial data, including EMR/EHR data.

The Principal Data Architect will set the technical direction for how data is ingested, modeled, governed, secured and served, and will build the data foundation for an AI-enabled BI platform that supports both analytics and agentic AI. Working closely with data engineering, data science and technology teams, the Principal Data Architect will take a hands-on role in setting architectural standards during the lakehouse build and stewarding the platform as it scales.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology, including 8+ years in data architecture, data engineering or related technical roles.
• 3+ years working with healthcare data in a regulated environment, including EMR/EHR integration and HIPAA compliance.
• Proven ownership of enterprise data architectures and reusable data product patterns.
• Experience designing a cloud lakehouse on Azure and Databricks using medallion architecture.

Requirements

• Expert SQL, Python and PySpark.
• Strong data modeling across dimensional, normalized, data mesh and data vault approaches.
• Hands-on experience with Azure data services: ADF, ADLS, Synapse, Azure SQL and Delta Lake, Azure Databricks.
• Experience with Epic Clarity/Caboodle, Oracle Health (Cerner) or MEDITECH data structures (preferred).
• Experience with vector search, feature stores and MLOps for AI and agentic systems (preferred).
• Exposure to Microsoft Foundry and/or Databricks Genie agents (preferred).
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure Health Data Services (preferred).
• Experience with governance and master data tools such as Collibra, Informatica or EMPI solutions (preferred).
• Experience with Airflow, Terraform and CI/CD for data pipelines (preferred).

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