Data & Cloud Data Architect

ELLKAY started out providing connectivity solutions to laboratories and within a few years, grew to also provide data management solutions to ambulatory organizations. ELLKAY is now a trusted data management partner in five healthcare segments. ELLKAY’s solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.
Today, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today’s data-rich world.
ELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.
Job Description
The Database & Cloud Data Architect will define and govern ELLKAY’s database, data-modeling, cloud data architecture, and data-management standards. This role will ensure that the shared Data Platform, Data Lake, migration solutions, and product data stores are scalable, secure, performant, governed, and aligned with ELLKAY’s target cloud architecture.
The Architect will work across AWS, Snowflake, relational databases, analytical platforms, and product-specific data stores. This is a senior hands-on architecture role responsible for defining standards while helping engineering teams implement them successfully.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Define the enterprise database and cloud data architecture for the shared Data Platform.
Develop logical, conceptual, and physical data models for core healthcare and platform domains.
Establish standards for relational, analytical, operational, and cloud-native data stores.
Define appropriate usage patterns for Snowflake, Amazon RDS or Aurora, object storage, caching, search, NoSQL, and other approved data technologies.
Design raw, standardized, curated, semantic, and product-serving data layers.
Define database design, naming, schema-management, indexing, partitioning, clustering, and performance standards.
Establish data lifecycle, retention, archival, deletion, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery patterns.
Define data security standards, including encryption, access controls, masking, tokenization, auditability, and PHI protection.
Develop canonical data models and reusable domain patterns that reduce incompatible product-specific schemas.
Guide migration from legacy and on-premises databases to approved AWS and cloud data platforms.
Define database modernization and migration patterns, including validation, reconciliation, rollback, and cutover controls.
Review and approve critical database and data-platform designs.
Partner with Product Architecture, Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security, Governance, Migration, and application teams.
Identify database performance, reliability, data-integrity, and cost risks and define remediation plans.
Create reference architectures, decision records, modeling standards, and architecture review checklists.
Maintain sufficient hands-on depth to build proofs of concept and support teams with complex database or data-modeling issues.
Qualifications
Deep experience in database and enterprise data architecture.
Strong logical and physical data-modeling capabilities.
Experience with AWS, Snowflake, and cloud database modernization.
Strong knowledge of database performance, security, resilience, backup, recovery, and cost optimization.
Experience designing governed data platforms and enterprise data models.
Ability to influence multiple engineering teams through architecture standards and technical leadership.
Healthcare data, interoperability, or regulated-data experience is preferred.
Benefits
ELLKAY offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that starts day one!
Including
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
Employer-paid Life and LTD
401k w/ matching – once eligibility is met
Work/life balance
Paid Volunteer Program
Flexible working hours
Generous FTO
Remote work options
Employee Discounts
Parental Leave
Gym membership / Exercise class stipends
Our Awesome Culture Includes
Working with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do
Professional growth within
Innovation environment
On site in HQ Free daily lunches
Awards
2025 Top Workplaces Employee Appreciation
2025 Top Workplaces Employee Well-Being
2025 Top Workplaces Professional Development
2025 Top Workplaces Leadership
2026 USA Today Top Workplaces
2026 NJ Top Workplaces
Additional Information
At ELLKAY, we are committed to operating as a hybrid workplace, offering employees flexibility in how they structure their time between in-office and remote work. We recognize the significance of fostering connections, collaboration, and creativity within our office culture and its positive impact on our business. Our philosophy of operating as a hybrid workplace underscores our dedication to enabling employees to tailor work-life balance to their individual preferences. For those who do not live within 40 miles of one of our offices, we are open to considering remote work for candidates whose skills and experience strongly align with the role. While we prioritize a hybrid work environment for most roles, we understand the importance of flexibility and are open to remote work for specific positions and specialized skill sets.
For more information on our company, visit www.ELLKAY.com.
ELLKAY LLC is a Smoke-Free Workplace.
ELLKAY, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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