Senior Data Architect

Who we are: -

At CitiusTech, we constantly strive to solve the industry's greatest challenges with technology, creativity, and agility. With over 8,500 healthcare technology professionals worldwide, CitiusTech powers healthcare digital innovation, business transformation, and industry-wide convergence for over 140 organizations through next-generation technologies, solutions, and products. We aim to accelerate the transition to a human-first, sustainable, and digital healthcare ecosystem with the world's leading Healthcare and life sciences organizations and our partners.

Here is an opportunity for you to make a difference and collaborate with global leaders to shape the future of healthcare and positively impact human lives.

Our vision: -

To inspire new possibilities for the health ecosystem with technology and human ingenuity.

Role: Principal Data, Analytics & AI Architect

Location: Portland, OR (Onsite / Hybrid)

Role Overview

This role is a senior technical and domain leadership position for the Data Platform (DP) built on Snowflake. The architect will act as a thought leader across data warehousing, analytics modernization, and AI‑driven insights, with strong grounding in healthcare domain.

Key Responsibilities

Data Warehousing & Platform Architecture

• Own and guide OLAP and dimensional modeling decisions and tradeoffs for analytical use cases.
• Be hands-on with advanced SQL patterns, performance tuning, and cost-aware design on Snowflake.
• Shape end‑to‑end data warehousing architecture on Snowflake, covering modeling, performance, cost, and scalability.
• Apply and evolve modern architecture patterns including medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) and domain‑driven analytics design.
• Define ETL / ELT strategies aligned to cloud‑native architectures.
• Guide decisions on data quality, governance, and analytics readiness.

Analytics & BI Modernization

• Drive architectural direction for analytics modernization, including:
• Greenplum → Snowflake (CDP) migration strategy and sequencing
• Tableau → Sigma migration and rationalization
• Define semantic‑layer‑first approaches to enable governed, AI‑ready analytics.
• Lead rationalization initiatives to reduce redundancy and simplify the analytics landscape.

AI‑Driven Insights & Agents (Healthcare‑Focused)

• Lead AI‑first analytics design, especially for healthcare use cases (Stars, quality, operations, performance).
• Design and influence Insights Agents / conversational analytics, grounded in strong semantic models.
• Evaluate and guide adoption of modern AI platforms and LLMs (e.g., Claude‑class models).
• Influence how AI is used to improve analyst productivity and insight turnaround time.

Roadmaps, POVs & Transformation Journeys

• Run rapid 2 to 3 week POCs to validate ideas and influence decisions.
• Operate independently in evolving problem spaces and bring clarity through prototypes and options.
• Build multi‑year data, analytics, and AI roadmaps aligned to client’s platform strategy.
• Shape transformation journeys—including migrations and future‑state capabilities.
• Lead rapid POCs / POVs to validate ideas and influence stakeholder decisions.

Domain‑Driven Thought Leadership

• Build deep understanding of client’s healthcare data landscape and domains.
• Apply domain context to architecture, analytics design, and AI use cases.
• Act as a trusted advisor to client leaders—presenting options, trade‑offs, and recommendations clearly.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years in data warehousing, analytics, and enterprise data architecture.
• Strong expertise in:
• Data warehousing & dimensional modeling
• ETL / ELT architectures
• Medallion architecture
• Deep hands‑on experience with Snowflake.
• Hands-on working experience with Snowflake Cortex.
• Good understanding of GenAI and prompt engineering fundamentals.
• Strong SQL and data modeling judgment.
• Proven leadership in large‑scale analytics and data transformation programs.
• Strong healthcare data & analytics experience.
• Comfortable operating as a technical thought leader, not a people or delivery manager.
• Self-learning and exploratory mindset with ability to operate independently.

Nice to Have

• dbt for analytics engineering
• Airflow or similar orchestration platforms
• AWS and cloud‑native data services
• Cortex Analyst
• Exposure to LLM‑based analytics (e.g., Claude‑class models)

Life at CitiusTech

We focus on building highly motivated engineering teams and thought leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset, centered on our core values of Passion, Respect, Openness, Unity, and Depth (PROUD) of knowledge. Our success lies in creating a fun, transparent, non-hierarchical, diverse work culture that focuses on continuous learning and work-life balance.

Rated by our employees as the ‘Great Place to Work for’ according to the Great Place to Work survey. We offer you a comprehensive set of benefits to ensure that you have a long and rewarding career with us.

Our EVP

Be You Be Awesome is our EVP and it reflects our continuing efforts to create CitiusTech as a great place to work where our employees can thrive, both personally and professionally. It encompasses the unique benefits and opportunities we offer to support your growth, well-being, and success throughout your journey with us and beyond. Together with our clients, we are solving some of the greatest healthcare challenges and positively impacting human lives. Welcome to the world of Faster Growth, Higher Learning, and Stronger Impact.

Join CitiusTech. Be You. Be Awesome.

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