Sanford Health · 3 hours ago
Senior Data Modeler
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$40/hr - $66/hr
5+ years expSanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. The Senior Data Modeler is responsible for architecting and advancing the enterprise data modeling framework, ensuring data structures support the organization's strategy and analytic maturity. This role involves leading collaboration with various stakeholders to design high-quality data models and ensuring compliance with data governance policies.
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Responsibilities
Architects, governs, and advances the enterprise data modeling framework to ensure data structures support organizational strategy, scalability, and analytic maturity
Provides expert-level leadership across conceptual, logical, and physical modeling and ensures data assets are accurate, consistent, reusable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards
Champions data modeling best practices, improves enterprise data quality, and shapes the long-term direction of data architecture
Leads collaboration with data architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business rules and analytical requirements into robust conceptual, logical, and physical data models
Designs and governs high-quality data structures using advanced normalization, dimensional modeling, star schema design, and domain-driven design
Produces and maintains detailed Entity–Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across data ecosystems
Provides authoritative oversight and approval for enterprise-wide data models, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, data governance policies, and Technology Solutions (TS) and Architecture COE principles
Establishes, refines, and enforces modeling standards, patterns, and best practices used across the organization to include comprehensive data dictionaries, metadata and data flow documentation
Ensures data models adhere to healthcare security and regulatory requirements (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR, etc.)
Designs schemas for data lakes and data warehouses (star, snowflake, normalized, denormalized)
Leads cross-functional technical discussions, serving as a mediator and subject matter expert to ensure data modeling needs are accurately understood and implemented
Contributes to the evolution of healthcare-based enterprise data models, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals
Collaborates closely with principal data architects to influence data architecture decisions and strategic direction
Strengthens data modeling discipline across applications and business areas, ensuring high-quality data capture and data pipeline alignment
Anticipates and identifies opportunities for optimization, modernization, and innovation in data modeling and proposes enhancements to align with industry advancements
Partners with data engineers, data architects and data analysts to resolve integration challenges
Mentors and develops data modelers, engineers, and analysts, promoting modeling excellence and knowledge sharing across teams
Designs, builds, and optimizes data models for platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, and similar cloud-based database systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and architectural integrity
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required in computer science, management information systems, or related field
Minimum of five years of experience in data modeling, database design and development, systems or applications development, or related field
Must be proficient in data modeling tools such as Erwin, ER/Studio, PowerDesigner, or other similar tools
Proficiency with SQL
Strong understanding of data pipeline and data warehousing principles and concepts is required
Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Preferred
Experience in data modeling and design within the health insurance or health care industry
Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)
Experience with healthcare analytics platforms (e.g., Epic Caboodle)
Understanding of data lake and lakehouse architectures
Experience with data governance, data quality, and MDM principles
Familiarity with BI/analytics tools and data science needs
Benefits
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
A 401(k) retirement plan
Work/life balance benefits
A generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance
Company
Sanford Health
Sanford is a healthcare company providing research, education and clinical care.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.01MKey Investors
South Dakota Department of Human Services
2024-07-24Grant· $0.01M
Leadership Team
Baier Roger
CEO
Bill Gassen
President & Chief Executive Officer
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