Highmark Health · 3 weeks ago
Principal Data Architect: Data Movement, Enrichment, and Orchestration
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$108K/yr - $202K/yr
10+ years expHighmark Health is seeking a hands-on Principal Data Architect to lead their data and digital transformation efforts. This role will define and deliver the enterprise strategy for data movement, enrichment, and orchestration, impacting millions of lives across the country.
Health CareHospital
Responsibilities
Lead the development and articulation of complex architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and strategic initiatives. Champion the adoption of best practices and emerging technologies, driving innovation and continuous improvement across the organization
Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the organization, influencing decision-making and ensuring alignment on complex architectural solutions
Lead the evaluation and selection of new technologies and solutions, ensuring they meet the organization's evolving needs and strategic direction. Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, ensuring clarity and consistency across all stakeholders
Proactively identify and mitigate potential risks and challenges, ensuring the successful implementation and ongoing operation of complex architectures. Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for architectural best practices, contributing to the development of organizational standards and policies
Provide expert guidance and mentorship, fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing
Other duties as assigned or requested
Qualification
Required
10 years of experience in Architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems and solutions
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or closely related discipline
None
Preferred
5+ years of enterprise data architecture experience driving transformation through data platform modernization
5+ years of architecture frameworks and methodologies: This person will have a strong opinion of if medallion architecture is a framework, methodology, or a marketing term (You might get bonus points with examples of all three being an “ok” answer and may give a good use case argument where each may be the “best” answer)
7+ years of experience with data movement platforms as an engineer, architect, or technical product manager/owner
Strong experience and knowledge of the below relevant platforms to this role: (Most critical being Airflow, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg Lakehouse and DBT)
Heavy Emphasis for Modernization: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Airflow (including CloudComposer), Beam (including DataFlow), DBT, Kafka (Confluent), Flink (Confluent), Spark (including DataProc and Databricks), Iceberg Format, Monte Carlo, Dynatrace, Atlan, Starburst, VertexAI, GitLab, GPT, and more
Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or closely related discipline
Company
Highmark Health
Highmark Health is an integrated health care delivery and financing network.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (38)
2024 (34)
2023 (55)
2022 (75)
2021 (54)
2020 (58)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.75MKey Investors
Henry L. Hillman FoundationRichard King Mellon Foundation
2025-06-11Grant· $1.75M
2021-05-10Grant· $5M
Leadership Team
David Holmberg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Karen Hanlon
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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