• This is a full-time role (40 hours/week) for a 6-month contract, with the possibility of extending for a long-term contract

• Diagnose the underlying causes of complex data problems and drive a defensible long-term plan

• Design the target-state data architecture across legacy and modern platforms, including migration sequencing and rollout

• Define schema strategy, event-driven patterns, and scalable data lifecycle policies

• Build an actionable data roadmap for resolving core data issues with explicit tradeoff analysis

• Drive a measurable reduction in data inconsistencies introduced by new feature development

• Establish architecture standards, review practices, and documentation to preserve institutional knowledge

• Act as subject matter expert on enterprise architecture questions where data meets product strategy

• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Enterprise Architecture leadership to align data architecture with platform goals

• Build technical trust with engineering and product leadership through evidence, technical debate, and collaborative problem-solving

Must-haves

• 8+ years of data architecture experience

• Deep expertise in target-state architectural design

• Proficiency with relational (SQL) and NoSQL data modeling, schema design, and data governance

• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (e.g. event buses, message queues)

• Experience migrating messy, legacy, or under-schematized environments toward modern frameworks

• Experience designing cloud-native data architectures (e.g. AWS)

• Experience defining data retention, lifecycle, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies

• Ability to defend technical proposals with evidence and operate in ambiguous environments

• Strong communication skills in both spoken and written English

Nice-to-haves

• Startup experience

• Experience in Healthcare, EMR/EHR, Health-Tech, or HIPAA-regulated environments

• Experience standing up a data or platform architecture function from the ground up

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent