Data Platform Architect

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July 29

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $162.6k - $248.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Healthfirst

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Healthcare Insurance • Finance • Medicare

Healthfirst is a health insurance provider dedicated to helping New Yorkers access affordable health coverage for individuals and families. With over 30 years of experience, Healthfirst offers a range of plans including Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, long-term care, and essential health plans. The company focuses on providing quality healthcare options, comprehensive benefits, and support to ensure members can maintain their health and well-being.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1993

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• The Platform architect leads and implements best-in-class data management strategies and practices in standing up and managing the enterprise data platform (Data Lakehouse). • They will be responsible for designing and building new capabilities to integrate into the platform. • Collaborate with the data product teams to ensure the platform enables value. • Architect and Design the Data Lakehouse: Lead the design and implementation of a scalable and secure Data Lakehouse on AWS. • Design and implement storage solutions using AWS services like S3, Iceberg. • Implement best practices for data security, including encryption, IAM roles, and compliance with relevant data protection regulations. • Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services related to data storage and compute (e.g., S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda). • Proven experience in designing and implementing Data Lakehouses or Data Lakes on AWS using Lake Formation • Ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure architectures that meet business needs. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment. • Ability to mentor junior staff. • 10+ years of experience designing and/or developing data management platforms, at least 5 in the cloud. • Experience as hands-on data engineer is a must. • Preferred Experience: AWS Big Data Certification (or equivalent) • Experience implementing cloud services with an infrastructure as code IaC methodology using AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, & Terraform • Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or similar table formats for handling large-scale data in a Lakehouse environment. • Experience in enabling monitoring using system observability tools like Splunk, Prometheus (with Grafana) • Experience in enabling compute through containers and container orchestration using Kubernetes. • Security Best Practices: Knowledge of data security and compliance best practices on AWS. • Experience or knowledge of RBAC, TBAC access control on AWS • Experience harvesting and leveraging metadata to drive technical processes and implementation. • Experience with modern data catalogs.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage • incentive and recognition programs • life insurance • 401k contributions