Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.
As a Principal Data Architect, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of data warehouse solutions at Cleveland Clinic. Your role involves leveraging modern tools and technologies to create secure, scalable, and high-performance data ecosystems that support data integration, analysis, and reporting for improved patient care, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making.
A caregiver in this position works days, from 8:00am-5:00pm.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Evaluate the current on-premises (Teradata et al) infrastructure and applications to determine what should be migrated to the cloud.
Develop a migration strategy and roadmap that outlines the timeline, budget, and key milestones, ensuring high value, high usage assets take priority.
Ensure that security measures and compliance requirements are met during migration and deployment.
Consider data transfer methods, such as bulk data transfer, online data transfer, or using data migration services provided by the cloud provider.
Architect and design cloud-based data warehouse solutions that cater to the specific data requirements of healthcare entities, such as electronic health records (EHRs), medical imaging data, patient demographics, clinical workflows, external quality related data, HRIS, ERP, etc.
Build technology prototypes as part of the design process as well as occasional coding of production deliverables.
Develop, standardize, and oversee ETL/ELT pipelines that extract diverse data sources, transform data into usable formats, and load it into the cloud data warehouse.
Implement data validation and quality checks to maintain the integrity of critical patient information.
Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and other data privacy standards when designing data solutions.
Stay up to date with cloud technologies relevant to healthcare data management, leveraging platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
Develop architectures that enable end to end management of data lineage, data quality, and data stewardship across federated teams.
Facilitate robust data governance practices specific to healthcare data, ensuring data quality, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
Collaborate with cybersecurity experts and data governance groups to establish stringent security measures for protecting patient health information (PHI) and sensitive data.
Design the cloud data warehouse to scale seamlessly as healthcare data volumes increase, accommodating the growing demands of medical records and diagnostics.
Leverage cloud platform features to enable optimal data retrieval.
Implement cloud monitoring and management tools to track the performance, availability, and cost of cloud resources.
Optimize cloud resource utilization to maintain cost-effectiveness while adhering to healthcare data storage and performance requirements.
Monitor resource consumption and recommend resource adjustments based on usage patterns.
Collaborate closely with healthcare data analysts, clinicians, and administrators to understand analytical requirements and design data structures that support evidence-based decision-making and clinical insights.
Enable the creation of analytics dashboards, predictive modeling, and population health management analytic assets.
Work in tandem with healthcare IT teams, data engineers, Operations, Finance, medical professionals, and administrators to align cloud data warehouse solutions with the Cleveland Clinic's mission and goals.
Provide expert guidance and leadership to other Data Architects across the organization, with a focus on standardizing and improving the discipline. Mentor and create architectural bench strength within the Data and Analytics organization.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Computer Science, MIS or a related field
10+ experience as a data architect or similar role, with specific focus on cloud data warehousing within the healthcare sector
Previous data cloud/warehouse/architecture deployment for a large enterprise/organization
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Can collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including medical professionals
Relevant cloud certifications and healthcare informatics certifications are highly advantageous
Familiarity with healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR)
Hands on proficiency in SQL, Python, Java and/or Scala
In-depth understanding of healthcare data regulations, including HIPAA, GDPR, and other relevant standards
Expertise in cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Azure Data Stack, etc) with knowledge of their healthcare-specific services and compliance measures
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Master's degree
Expert knowledge of healthcare provider data models, Epic
Experience with Data Streaming technologies like Kafka
Experience with Machine learning frameworks
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Physical Requirements:
Ability to perform work in a stationary position for extended periods.
Ability to travel throughout the hospital system.
Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment.
Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follow standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Pay Range
Minimum hourly: $72.70
Maximum hourly: $143.58
The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the anticipated range for new hires. While the pay range is displayed as an hourly rate, Cleveland Clinic recruiters will clarify whether the compensation is hourly or salary. A successful candidate's actual compensation will be determined after taking factors into consideration such as the candidate's work history, experience, skill set, and education. This is not inclusive of the value of Cleveland Clinic's benefits package, which includes among other benefits, healthcare/dental/vision and retirement.
Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities