Job Description
Title: Senior Solution Architect
Start Date: 10/27/25
Location: Palo Alto, CA (Remote with occasional travel)
Contract: 6 month contract
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in healthcare data architecture, particularly around physician credentialing, Epic systems, and regulatory compliance. This role will evolve to encompass additional domains such as location, specialty, and other enterprise master data entities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement a scalable Master Data Management (MDM) framework for physician data utilizing the enterprise data warehouse (EDW), including proof-of-concept development and long-term solution planning.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders across Credentialing, HR, Faculty Affairs, and Clinical Operations to understand data needs and ensure alignment.
- Design data models and integration strategies that accommodate both internal and external data requests, including multi-departmental, vendor, regulatory, and registry needs, while ensuring flexibility and interoperability.
- Ensure that solutions comply with regulatory and compliance requirements from the outset, facilitating future expansion and enterprise-wide adoption.
- Conduct analysis, development, and testing of MDM solutions independently, while supporting data engineers, analysts, and users in leveraging master data for data-driven decision-making.
- Build strong relationships with users and team members, gaining trust and respect from key stakeholders, including Directors and above.
- Promote advanced data governance principles and practices, assisting in the identification and resolution of data quality issues across the enterprise.
- Manage multiple complex activities, including task dependencies and user/team expectations regarding solution delivery timelines.
- Provide project management and leadership to drive timelines and deliverables across multiple departments/functions.
- Participate in and lead project working groups with team members, users, analysts, clinicians, and SHC leadership.
- Offer technical leadership and mentorship to other architects and data engineers involved in MDM initiatives.
- Lead data community meetings and encourage participation.
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and establish countermeasures to enhance supported solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience as a Solution Architect or Enterprise Data Architect (minimum of 5 in a healthcare setting)
- In-depth knowledge of physician data, including credentialing and other healthcare/hospital EHR data.
- Hands-on experience with Epic data models and integration.
- Workday Finance Management and Databricks experience highly preferred
- Strong background in MDM practices, data modeling, and data governance best practices.
- Ability to design scalable, compliant solutions that adapt to evolving business needs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to present complex ideas to diverse audiences, including senior managers and industry groups.
- Expert knowledge of database concepts and design, with the capability to assist other data engineers in these tasks.
- Proficient in translating business requirements into “single-source-of-truth” data products for moderate to large complex projects.
- Experience in executing and monitoring performance tuning tasks, including optimization design for complex projects.
- Ability to work independently while providing regular updates to supervisors on pending tasks, challenges, and potential roadblocks.
- Demonstrated success in completing complex projects and fulfilling SHC's vision by proposing innovative approaches to achieve organizational goals.
Job Tags
Contract work, Remote work,