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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Architect - **Company:** Propertyvalue R Systems, Inc. - **Location:** Sacramento, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Business Analytics Applications, ASC X12 Standards, Backup Devices, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Security, Shard (Database Architecture), Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Payment Systems, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Metadata, MongoDB, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Data Streaming, Transaction Data, Apache Cassandra, Snowflake, Indexer, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Cloud Migration, Cloudwatch, Amazon Redshift, Databricks - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b5816d36-4cbf-4462-be7e-6c7709c74844 ## About the Role * 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Architecture, Database Architecture, or Distributed Data Platforms. * Proven experience architecting very large-scale data platforms handling millions/billions of records. * Strong experience with large historical, legacy, and multi-year datasets. * Strong experience with healthcare and/or financial/payment data in mission-critical environments. * Hands-on expertise with MongoDB and/or Apache Cassandra and distributed NoSQL architectures. * Strong understanding of data modeling, partitioning, sharding, indexing, replication, consistency, scalability, and CAP trade-offs. * Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency, highly available and fault-tolerant data platforms. * Strong AWS experience with EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch; EKS is highly desirable. * Experience with legacy modernization, large-scale data migration, data reconciliation, and historical data preservation. * Strong knowledge of performance tuning, capacity planning, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. * Experience with data security, governance, data quality, lineage, encryption, and access control. * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field., * Experience with healthcare payer, insurance, government healthcare, financial services, or payment systems. * Experience with healthcare enrollment, eligibility, capitation, payment, claims, or financial transaction data. * Experience with HIPAA and/or ASC X12 820/834 transactions. * Experience with MongoDB Atlas, Amazon Keyspaces, Kubernetes/EKS, or containerized data platforms. * Experience with Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or event-driven architectures. * Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or other analytical platforms. * Experience with enterprise data governance, metadata, lineage, and data-quality frameworks. * AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Database Specialty. * Experience working in large government, public-sector, or regulated environments. ## Description We are seeking a highly experienced Data Architect to support a large-scale healthcare and financial data modernization program. 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