Qualified Health
Healthcare
Staff/PrincipalForward-DeployedArchitect,DataModernization
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“Staff / Principal Forward-Deployed Architect, Data Modernization at Qualified Health. Skills: Data Modernization, Forward-Deployed Architecture, AI Governance, EHR Data Foundation. Own cross-platform reference architecture. Evolve reference architecture”
What You'll Achieve.
Collapse path from data exists to AI workflows; Ship code yourself; Optimize for delivered value
Industry & Context.
Solve complex challenges; Root cause analysis
25-35% travel
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 10+ years in data engineering, Hands-on production experience, Three enterprise lakehouse implementations, Deep cloud fluency, Client-facing experience leading executive technical conversations
Nice to Have
Master's degree preferred, Healthcare data fluency, Direct experience with modern data sharing patterns, HIPAA / HITRUST-regulated opinions, Background in a Databricks / Snowflake / Microsoft Fabric professional services
What You'll Do.
Own cross-platform reference architecture
Evolve reference architecture
Serve as engagement-embedded tech lead
Lead technical discovery
Assess source environments
Design defensible target state
Lead and develop team
Review engineering deliverables
Approve engineering deliverables
Partner with Engagement Manager
Surface technical risk
Coordinate technical handoffs
Maintain technical engagement playbook
Maintain library of accelerators
Carry technical narrative
Convert technical credibility
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Platform-specialist Senior Data Engineers; Cloud/Platform Engineer; Engagement Manager; Field CDO; QH Platform team
Communication Scope
Executive technical conversations; CTO conversations; Client presentations
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring — working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. JOB SUMMARY The Staff / Principal Forward-Deployed Architect is the senior-most technologist in our Data Modernization Services function — and the single named architect across every engagement we run. You own the reference architecture that defines how we land an EHR-anchored, AI-ready data foundation on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, and you stay close enough to the work to ship code yourself when an engagement calls for it. The work is unusually high-leverage. Every health system we modernize — from legacy reporting databases and SFTP-driven feeds to a modern lakehouse with Delta Sharing, Reader Accounts, or Fabric External Sharing — collapses the path from "data exists somewhere" to "agentic AI workflows can safely run against it." You're the person who decides what that target state looks like, defends those choices in front of a customer CTO, and then leads the team that builds it on a 10-week greenfield clock. You'll lead a tight bench of platform-specialist Senior Data Engineers (one each on Databricks, Snowflake, and Fabric) plus a Cloud/Platform Engineer. You're the public face of the practice in pre-sales discovery — and during active delivery, you're the engagement-embedded tech lead. Strong opinions, loosely held. Equally comfortable in a CTO conversation and a Terraform repo. This posting spans both Staff and Principal levels; the
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