Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect / Data Consultant – Healthcare
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Role Summary
We are looking for a senior, client-facing Data Architect / Data Consultant with strong experience in the Healthcare domain, Microsoft Fabric/Azure Data Fabric, and Snowflake. The ideal candidate should have experience participating in discovery and assessment phases, understanding business requirements, and recommending appropriate technology and cost-effective data solutions to clients.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and participate in discovery, assessment, and requirement-gathering phases for data and analytics initiatives.
Design scalable and cost-effective cloud data architecture aligned with business requirements.
Provide technical expertise across Microsoft Fabric/Azure Data Fabric and Snowflake.
Understand healthcare data, business processes, reporting requirements, and data challenges.
Work directly with clients to understand business objectives and translate them into technical solutions.
Recommend appropriate technologies, architectures, and implementation approaches with clear technical and business reasoning.
Evaluate solution costs, cloud consumption, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Present technical recommendations and architecture options to business and technical stakeholders.
Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business teams throughout solution discovery and delivery.
Identify risks, dependencies, technical gaps, and opportunities for optimization.
Prepare architecture documents, discovery findings, solution approaches, and technical proposals.
Mandatory Skills
8+ years of experience in Data Engineering / Data Architecture / Data Consulting.
Strong experience in the Healthcare domain.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric / Azure Data Fabric.
Strong experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms.
Proven experience working in discovery and assessment phases.
Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to recommend technology and cost optimization strategies based on business requirements.
Strong understanding of data architecture, data integration, data modeling, and cloud platforms.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
Experience comparing and designing solutions across Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and Azure data services.
Experience with cloud cost estimation and optimization.
Knowledge of healthcare data standards and systems is a plus.
Experience preparing architecture proposals and conducting technical workshops.
Strong understanding of modern data lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.
Core Skills
Healthcare | Microsoft Fabric | Azure Data Platform | Snowflake | Data Architecture | Discovery | Solution Design | Cloud Cost Optimization | Data Engineering | Client Consulting | Technical Advisory | Stakeholder Management
Skills: microsoft,architecture,data,azure,snowflake,fabric,data architecture

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