Senior Staff Database Architect

🕒 June 17

⛰️ Colorado, Kansas, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $135.8k - $203.8k / year

⏰ 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 Cosmos 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 • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

🏖️ Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs • Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement • At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy • Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan • Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount