MomentimRx is advancing a modern healthcare data platform and digital products toaccelerate innovation and improve patient health outcomes. The Lead Data Architectwill lead the design and execution of enterprise-scale, secure, and scalable data solutions,shaping the next-generation healthcare data capabilities at McKesson.
This role partnerswith business and technology leaders to define architectural strategy, drive interoperability,and enable AI/ML and analytics-ready environments.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Leadership: Define technical strategy, architecture standards, and long term roadmap; lead design and planning for new platforms, products, and services;establish enterprise-wide best practices and reusable patterns.
Technology Innovation & Delivery: Oversee architectural execution of enterprise scale data solutions
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative,business-aligned solutions; mentor teams on modern architecture and cloud-nativepractices.
Governance, Security & Compliance: Provide technical governance througharchitecture review boards and standards enforcement
Ensure compliance withhealthcare regulations and enterprise security standards; embed data security, privacy,and regulatory compliance in all data architecture designs.
Partner closely withCompliance, Privacy, and Enterprise Governance teams to define and execute a holisticdata strategy aligned with regulatory requirements and enterprise risk posture.
Data Strategy & Governance Integration: Work in close collaboration with Data
Governance organizations to operationalize metadata management and lineage byintegrating enterprise data assets with governance platforms such as Alation.
Ensureconsistent capture, enrichment, and stewardship of metadata across data platforms tosupport discoverability, lineage, data quality, and auditability.
Documentation & Standards: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentationof data architecture, data dictionaries, and data flow diagrams; ensure consistency,traceability, and quality across platforms.
Minimum Requirement
- Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Masters or Doctorate qualifications.
Critical Skills & Experience
10+ years in technology roles with significant architecture experience in complexenterprises.
Cloud & Data Platforms: Expertise in Azure, Databricks, multi-cloud architectures,data lakes/lakehouses, real-time streaming, Unity Catalog, and modern datagovernance frameworks.
Data Architecture & Engineering
Strong proficiency in data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, physical) andexperience with data modeling tools.
Advanced data modeling, normalization, ETL/ELT pipeline design, andbatch/streaming architectures.
Experience with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQLdatabases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
Familiarity with data governance frameworks, data quality management, andmaster data management (MDM) principles.
Integration of external data sources, SFTP-based ETL, and real-time pipelines.
Experience integrating metadata and lineage into enterprise data governanceplatforms (e.g., Alation) to enable discoverability, auditability, and data qualityacross the organization.
Interoperability & Standards: SOA modernization, service-based architectures,
OAuth2/OIDC/SMART/RBAC/ABAC; deep understanding of healthcare data standards(HL7, FHIR, ICD-10) and HIPAA compliance.
AI & Analytics Enablement: Architecting ML/AI-ready environments and real-timeanalytics platforms.
DevOps & Platform Enablement: CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment, GitHubversion control.
Healthcare Domain Expertise: EMR systems, claims processing, MDM, and IQVIA orsimilar healthcare datasets.
Non-Technical Competencies
Ability to align diverse stakeholders around a clear and compelling technical vision.
Strong analytical skills to solve complex, cross-functional enterprise challenges.
Proven ability to balance business priorities, technical constraints, and riskmanagement.
Excellent communicator capable of influencing audiences from engineers to seniorexecutives.
Experience participating in and leading architecture review boards and definingreusable enterprise patterns.
Strategic mindset with the ability to guide long-term platform and capability evolution.
Demonstrates collaboration, accountability, and a team-first mindset.
Deep understanding of the healthcare industry, enterprise risk management, andregulatory considerations.
Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Privacy, and Governancestakeholders to drive enterprise data strategy and embed policy-driven governancecontrols into architecture designs.
Startup experience (2+ years) strongly preferred.
This role is a hybrid position. The selected candidate is expected to work on-site at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.
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Our Base Pay Range for this position
$147,800 - $246,400
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