Senior Director, Data Architecture

• Establish and drive adoption of enterprise data standards covering naming conventions, business and technical metadata, data quality rules, and reporting definitions across Snowflake
• Select, implement, or extend a data catalog with ownership, definitions, sensitivity classifications, and usage guidance for core data assets
• Develop a shared healthcare-context ontology and enterprise data dictionary reconciling definitions across Customer Success, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, and Operations
• Define and implement data lineage standards tracing metrics and fields from source to consumption
• Partner with embedded analytics teams to align reporting definitions and develop certified reports and semantic models
• Serve as enterprise data architect for Snowflake data modeling, organization, governance, schema design, domain modeling, and platform architecture
• Translate between business concepts and data models
• Establish decision rights, change-management processes, governance forums, and a data council
• Report to the SVP of AI, Data & Data Science
• Operate as the senior-most technical authority on enterprise data standards, taxonomy, and governance
• Deliver an adopted enterprise data dictionary and ontology
• Build and maintain a live catalog covering high-value Snowflake datasets
• Document lineage for key reporting metrics
• Reduce duplicate or conflicting reports and metric definitions
• Establish durable governance with active stakeholder participation

Requirements

• Must reside in the United States within one of the listed eligible states
• 10+ years in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data roles
• Direct, hands-on experience building or scaling data catalogs, data dictionaries, taxonomies, or ontologies across a complex organization
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse, including data modeling, schema design, and architecture tradeoffs
• Direct experience with data cataloging and metadata management tools such as Snowflake Horizon, Collibra, Alation, Atlan, DataHub, or Purview
• Experience integrating legacy data sources such as RDBMS and with lineage tooling and practices
• Track record aligning functions with different vocabularies and incentives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to facilitate stakeholder consensus
• Healthcare domain experience, ideally in healthcare revenue cycle, payer/provider, or patient financial services
• Solid data modeling fundamentals, including dimensional modeling, entity-relationship modeling, and semantic layers
• Familiarity with modern data stack components, including ELT/ETL, orchestration, and BI/semantic tools such as dbt, Looker, Power BI, or Tableau
• Senior individual-contributor experience representing data architecture in leadership forums
• Employment eligibility in the United States
• Successful employment-history verification and background check
• No current or future need for work sponsorship in the United States
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK and formal data stewardship programs is nice to have
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as X12, HL7/FHIR, CPT/ICD coding, and HIPAA is nice to have
• Experience with ontology or knowledge-graph approaches supporting AI and data science is nice to have

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in enterprise data architecture, governance, and management, with a strong focus on Snowflake data modeling, data cataloging, and metadata management. Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and establish data standards within the healthcare domain.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Data Architecture
• Snowflake Data Modeling
• Data Cataloging
• Healthcare Domain Experience
• Data Governance

Hard Skills

• Data Management
• Data Lineage
• Dimensional Modeling
• Entity-Relationship Modeling
• Semantic Layers
• Data Quality Rules
• Metadata Management
• Ontology Development
• Taxonomy Creation
• Data Dictionary

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Stakeholder Consensus Facilitation

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare Revenue Cycle
• Payer/Provider
• Patient Financial Services
• DAMA-DMBOK
• X12
• HL7/FHIR
• CPT/ICD Coding
• HIPAA

Tools & Technologies

• Snowflake Horizon
• Collibra
• Alation
• Atlan
• DataHub
• Purview
• Dbt
• Looker
• Power BI
• Tableau