Senior Data Platform Architect

This position leads enterprise-scale solution design, ensuring technology strategies align with Banner Health's mission to deliver safe, efficient, an innovative healthcare services. This role drives the adoption of AI-enabled care models, advanced cloud architectures, and secure, compliant integration of healthcare systems. Mentors junior staff, influences, strategic decisions, and ensures delivery of solutions that enhance patient outcomes and operational performance.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Lead the design of complex, multi-domain healthcare solutions using Azure, AWS, and hybrid architectures.

2. Architect AI/ML-enabled applications for predictive analytics, clinical decision support, and operational efficiency.

3. Define and enforce architecture governance, ensuring adherence to HIPPAA, HITECH, PCI, NIS 800-53, and internal security standards.

4. Develop cloud adoption roadmaps, including Azure Landing Zones or AWS Landing Zones, hybrid connectivity, and more.

5. Evaluate and select vendor solutions, balancing innovation, cost, compliance, and operational readiness.

6. In collaboration with Enterprise Architects, create and maintain architectural artifacts, archetypes, reference architectures, and capability roadmaps for enterprise consumption and integration to the Enterprise Architecture roadmap.

7. Provide thought leadership in AI ethics, data governance, and healthcare-specific deployment strategies.

8. Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, executives, clinicians, and IT Leaders to align technology with business goals.

9. Relentless focus on delivering outcomes and value to our business in partnership with Senior Leadership, stakeholders, and vendor partners to develop architectures, strategies, and guidance in support of strategic initiatives.

Do you have experience in Systems analysis?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience. Must have 10 years of progressive IT experience in development, infrastructure, or systems analysis, and 4+ years of solution or enterprise architecture.

Must obtain one or more of the following certifications within one year of hire: Microsoft Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF Certified Architect, or ITIL Intermediate.

Must have proven experience in cloud-based healthcare solutions, including AI/ML deployments. Strong understanding of healthcare compliance, interoperability, and security.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience in healthcare or a regulated industry

5+ years of experience designing solutions utilizing AI components

Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Proven mentorship of junior architects or engineers

The following certifications: Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect Expert, AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty, Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

3.53.5 out of 5 stars Austin, TX 78701 Remote $65.70 - $109.50 an hour - Full-time, $65.70 - $109.50 / hour Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.

Banner Health was named to Fortune's Most Innovative Companies in America 2025 list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. We're proud to be recognized for our commitment to the latest health care advancements and excellent patient care. Banner Health's Data Platform Team sits at the intersection of innovation and technology transformation - and we're building it right now. We architect and operate the data platform that powers decision-making across one of the largest nonprofit health systems -from real-time operational reporting to population health analytics and AI-enabled care models. Our team is actively building and governing Banner's modern cloud data platform on AWS and Databricks, ingesting claims, clinical, and operational data across a complex payor provider and delivery system. We move fast, hold high standards, and build things that matter. Our work directly influences patient outcomes, provider efficiency, and the financial health of the system. If you want to do serious data architecture in a health care enterprise where the value is real and you want to be part of building it from the ground up, this is the team. This is a fully remote position, and no two days look the same. You may start the morning reviewing a reference architecture for a new AI-enabled clinical decision support capability on Databricks, spend midday in a working session with clinicians and IT leaders aligning on data integration requirements across our AWS ecosystem. You are equally comfortable with whiteboarding data ingestion patterns and flows through our lakehouse architecture, authoring architectural diagrams, and presenting a strategic roadmap to senior leaders. We are looking for someone with the rare balance of deep healthcare knowledge and strong technical data platform architecture skills - someone who understands the complexity of claims adjudication workflows and how MPI resolution maps across the medallion architecture from bronze through gold, but can also design scalable, governed data platform infrastructure on AWS and Databricks that clinicians and operators trust to inform their decisions. This is a remote position. In this role you would work Monday through Friday normal business hours 8am - 5pm AZ time zone and can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY. Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life. Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.