Principal Information Architect

Key Responsibilities
Define and maintain enterprise information and data architecture strategies, principles, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps
Translate business and technical requirements into scalable architecture blueprints aligned with healthcare payer capabilities and strategic objectives
Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state information architectures
Define conceptual and logical information models, common business definitions, information domains, canonical models, and authoritative data sources
Establish architectural patterns for master and reference data, metadata, data lineage, data quality, information lifecycle management, and systems of record
Partner with data governance teams, business owners, and data stewards to establish information ownership, accountability, and standards
Define integration and interoperability patterns supporting APIs, events, messaging, ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, FHIR, HL7, and X12/EDI
Provide architectural direction for data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, analytical platforms, and distributed data environments
Guide the appropriate use of Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, SQL, NoSQL, ETL/ELT, and master data management platforms
Collaborate with analytics and business intelligence teams to establish consistent business definitions, governed metrics, semantic models, and trusted reporting
Ensure information architecture incorporates security, privacy, regulatory, data-quality, and information lifecycle requirements
Participate in architecture governance and evaluate proposed solutions for alignment with enterprise standards and target-state architecture
Document architecture decisions, alternatives, risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs
Facilitate architecture reviews and cross-domain design discussions involving business, product, engineering, analytics, security, and architecture teams
Communicate the business impact of architecture decisions and mentor architects, engineers, analysts, and data practitioners

Required Qualifications
9+ years of experience
Bachelor's degree in a related field

Skills
Data Architecture
Microsoft Azure
Snowflake
SQL
NoSQL
Oracle
ETL/ELT
Data Warehousing
Data Lakes and Lakehouses
Healthcare Interoperability Standards
APIs and Event-Driven Integration
Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
Metadata Management and Data Lineage
Master Data Management Platforms
Data Mining and Segmentation
Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
Streaming Data Pipelines
Distributed Systems
Enterprise Information Architecture
Data Governance
Healthcare Payer Domain Knowledge
Architecture Governance
Master Data Management
Data Lifecycle Management
Stakeholder Management
Written and Verbal Communication
Mentoring and Coaching
Technical Documentation
Cross-functional Collaboration
Business Analysis
Agile Delivery

Schedule
Start date: 2026-11-23