Principal Data Platform Architect

Availity

1d • Remote

About The Position

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change. At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission. We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding. Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem. We’re seeking a seasoned Principal Data Platform Architect to design, evolve, and govern our enterprise data platform on AWS. This role will lead architecture across ingestion, storage, governance, transformation, semantics, and consumption layers—enabling analytics, AI/ML, and operational use cases. You’ll work closely with engineering, data science, analytics, security, and business stakeholders to deliver a resilient, secure, and cost-effective platform that accelerates data value across the company. Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years in data engineering/architecture, with 5+ years architecting on AWS.
• Proven track record delivering secure, governed, and highly available data platforms.
• Experience leading platform migrations or net-new builds using lakehouse approaches.
• Hands-on involvement with EMR Serverless, Redshift, Lake Formation, DataZone, MWAA orchestration.
• AWS Expertise (S3, IAM, KMS, Glue, Lake Formation, DataZone, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Step Functions, MWAA, CloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail, VPC, PrivateLink, Gateway/Interface endpoints).
• Data Architecture: Lakehouse patterns, medallion architecture, Parquet/Iceberg, distributed processing (Spark).
• Security & Compliance: Row/column-level security, encryption, HIPAA handling.
• Data Modeling & Performance: Dimensional modeling, semantic modeling, SQL tuning, partitioning.
• Orchestration & CI/CD: Airflow DAG design, Step Functions, Terraform/CDK, GitOps.
• Observability & Data Quality: Metrics, lineage, validation frameworks.
• Communication & Leadership: Clear technical writing and stakeholder engagement.
• Architectural Thinking: Systems design and trade-off analysis with pragmatic standards.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Influences cross-functional teams, and translates business needs into platform capabilities.
• Execution Excellence: Drives from blueprint to production; de-risks complexity with automation and guardrails.
• Security-First Mindset: Embeds controls in design.
• Operational Discipline: Emphasizes reliability and cost efficiency.
• Continuous Improvement: Measures outcomes and iterates, fostering a learning culture.

Nice To Haves

• AWS certifications a plus (e.g., AWS Certified Data & Analytics – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional)
• Streaming & Event-Driven: MSK/Kafka, Kinesis, CDC with DMS.
• ML/MLOps: SageMaker Pipelines, Feature Store, model registry.
• BI/Visualization: QuickSight administration and optimization.
• Governance Tools: Collibra/Alation experience.
• Data Contracts & Mesh: Domain-aligned data products, consumer-producer SLAs.
• Healthcare/Insurance Domain: Familiarity with X12 data.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Roadmap: Define end-to-end reference architectures leveraging AWS services (S3, Glue, Lake Formation, DataZone, EMR/EMR Serverless, Redshift, Athena, MWAA/Airflow, Step Functions, Lambda, KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, EventBridge).
• Data Governance & Security: Implement fine-grained data access controls with AWS Lake Formation; standardize data cataloging and metadata via Glue and DataZone; ensure compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2).
• Ingestion & Transformation: Define scalable ingestion frameworks for batch and streaming; orchestrate ETL/ELT with Glue, EMR Serverless, MWAA, and Step Functions.
• Analytics & Semantic Layer: Architect curated layers for BI/ML using Redshift, Athena, QuickSight; optimize performance and cost.
• ML Enablement: Operationalize ML on SageMaker; ensure reproducibility and secure access to datasets.
• Reliability, Observability & FinOps: Define SLAs/SLOs; implement monitoring via CloudWatch; drive cost governance.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Provide architectural guidance; document standards and mentor engineers.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays.
• Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place!
• Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees