Enterprise Application and Data Architect

HealthPartners is hiring an Enterprise Application and Data Architect. This role is responsible for defining the overall architecture of HealthPartners applications across web platforms administrative systems infrastructure and data environments. The Enterprise Architect ensures that application development and enhancements align with HealthPartners strategic goals and integrate smoothly within the broader technical landscape.

This role partners closely with IT leadership the Enterprise Architecture team and business leaders to define and advance application architecture standards policies and longterm technology strategy. The architect works most directly with internal data operations/platform teams serving as a primary thought partner on data and analytics architecture while also collaborating with internal digital/application development teams.

This is a replacement position following the departure of a long-tenured employee. The role reports to the Director of IT Enterprise Architecture and is part of a collaborative team of five professionals including four full-time employees and one contractor.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
• Twelve (12) years of progressive experience in software engineering including:
  • Four (4) years of enterprise or solution architecture capacity
  • Two (2) years of recent DataOps experience.
  • Four (4) years of project management experience
• Proficiency in various technologies (e.g. web front-end back-end database OS) and programming languages (e.g. Python Java C# TypeScript) and direct experience designing building and deploying production software systems.
• Proficiency in various database technologies and modeling and expert level in SQL.
• Data platform experience: Working knowledge of data warehouse and data lake design - including dimensional modeling lake/lakehouse patterns pipeline orchestration and data quality practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of broad technology depth across the following domains: application architecture data architecture / DataOps integration/API design and enterprise applications (ERP EHR CRM).
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude ChatGPT) to accelerate software development documentation or workflows.
• Familiarity with modern SDLC practices: CI/CD pipelines automated testing containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and DevOps/DevSecOps toolchains.
• Business engagement skills: Demonstrated ability to engage directly with business stakeholders - facilitating requirements discovery translating business needs into technology direction and validating that solutions in flight match business intent.
• Effective communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences using verbal and written forms.
• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in healthcare IT environments (payer provider or health system).
• Experience in DataOps in cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Hands-on experience with one or more data platform technologies: Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Fabric Databricks dbt Apache Spark or equivalent.
• Familiarity with data governance tooling (e.g. Microsoft Purview Apache Atlas) and data catalog/lineage practices.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulations and standards (HIPAA HL7 FHIR CMS interoperability rules).
• Experience leading architecture in an Agile or SAFe delivery environment - including backlog shaping enabler stories and embedded architecture support within delivery teams.

Hours/Location:

• M-F; core business hours
• This is a hybrid role with an expectation of being onsite 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Develop maintain and communicate enterprise architecture artifacts including reference architectures technology roadmaps and landscape inventories.
• Apply software engineering experience to guide application architecture decisions - including system decomposition service design API contracts data modeling and software design patterns.
• Review and influence code-level architectural decisions: framework selection dependency management build pipelines automated testing strategies and deployment patterns.
• Evaluate software development practices across teams - advocating for clean architecture testability observability and maintainability as first-class architectural concerns.
• Provide architectural guidance for enterprise data platforms - including data warehouses data lakes and lakehouse architectures - ensuring they are designed for scalability data quality and governed access.
• Define standards and patterns for data ingestion transformation and orchestration pipelines (ETL/ELT) across batch and streaming workloads.
• Champion DataOps practices - version-controlled pipeline development automated data quality testing observability and monitoring of data flows and CI/CD for data assets.
• Advise on semantic layer design data modeling approaches (dimensional Data Vault OBT) and the appropriate use of data products for self-service analytics consumption.
• Identify architectural risks technical debt and opportunities for rationalization across the enterprise portfolio.
• Lead business capability and requirements discovery sessions - translating business needs workflows and outcomes into architectural direction and technology requirements.
• Validate throughout delivery that what is being designed and built accurately reflects what the business asked for - identifying drift between business intent and technical implementation early and escalating when necessary.
• Participate in business planning cycles initiative discovery and roadmap development - ensuring architecture input is present at the point where business decisions are made not after.
• Performs other work as assigned.