Principal Data Platform Architect

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.

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.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• 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.

To differentiate yourself, you:

• 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.

What you will be doing:

• 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.

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified "Great Place to Work", a "Best Workplaces for Technology Companies", a "Best Workplaces for Women" and a "Best Workplaces for Millennials"!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. "AvaiLadies", "Beyond Black", "HOLA", "Availity Pride", "VetAvaility" a Young Professionals Group and "She Can Code IT" a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• 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.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager resume review
• Manager video interview
• Team video interview
• Senior leadership video interview

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Video Camera Usage:

Availity fosters a collaborative and open culture where communication and engagement are central to our success. As a remote first company, we are also camera-first and provide all associates with camera/video capability to simulate the office environment. If you are not able to use your camera for all virtual meetings, you should not apply for this role.

Having cameras on helps create a more connected, interactive, and productive environment, allowing teams to communicate more effectively and build stronger working relationships. The usage of cameras also enhances security and protects sensitive company information. Video participation is required to ensure that only authorized personnel are present in meetings and to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, preventing social engineering, or the sharing of confidential information with non-participants.

Disclaimers:

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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