Senior Staff Database Architect

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🕒 May 29

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure, scalable, multi-tenant database architectures for healthcare SaaS applications • Develop data models and storage solutions for sensitive healthcare data (PHI, PII/PPI) • Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, and other relevant regulations • Implement data encryption (at rest and in transit), masking, and access controls • Architect systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and auditability • Define and enforce data governance, retention, and audit logging policies • Optimize database performance for large-scale healthcare datasets and real-time access • Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to meet regulatory requirements • Lead data migration and integration with EHR/EMR systems and third-party healthcare platforms • Comply best practices for secure CI/CD pipelines involving database changes • Monitor systems for data integrity, breaches, and anomalous access patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field • 10+ years of progressive industry experience in enterprise technology, architecture, and systems management. • 7 + years of experience in database architecture, preferably in SaaS environments • Strong experience with data lake architectures (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage) • Proven experience designing or managing data farm / distributed data platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Databricks ecosystems) • Hands-on experience handling sensitive data (PHI, PII/PPI) in regulated environments • Strong knowledge of HIPAA compliance, data privacy, and security frameworks • Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and non-relational systems such as Cosmo s DB , MongoDB • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially healthcare-compliant services • Proficiency in data encryption, key management, and role-based access control (RBAC) • Strong understanding of scaling strategies and distributed systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible work hours • Professional development opportunities