Snowflake Solution Architect Healthcare

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Solution Architect to lead the design, optimization, governance, and strategic adoption of the Snowflake Data Cloud within hospital and health system environments. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to clinical, operational, financial, and IT stakeholders, driving enterprisewide data modernization initiatives while ensuring scalability, security, compliance, and cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Snowflake architecture: Design and maintain scalable, secure, highperforming Snowflake environments; define enterprise data platform strategy; implement best practices for governance, sharing, and cost optimization.

• Healthcare data integration: Architect ingestion pipelines for EHR/EMR, claims, ERP, and population health data; support interoperability with HL7, FHIR APIs, and X12.

• Governance & compliance: Implement HIPAAcompliant architecture, RBAC, masking policies, metadata management, and audit capabilities.

• Performance optimization: Monitor consumption, optimize warehouse sizing, clustering, caching, and workload balancing; enable observability and automation.

• Stakeholder engagement: Liaise with healthcare leadership, analytics, and engineering teams; conduct architecture reviews and roadmap planning; mentor internal teams.

• Analytics enablement: Support BI/AI/ML initiatives with Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Python/R; enable use cases in population health, care management, quality reporting, and predictive analytics.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• 8+ years in Data Engineering/Architecture with 4+ years Snowflake implementation.

• Experience in hospital, health system, or payer IT environments.

• Strong knowledge of healthcare data standards and interoperability frameworks.

• Expertise with ETL/ELT tools (dbt, Matillion, Informatica, Talend, Fivetran).

• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

• Strong SQL, data modeling, and performance tuning skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced Architect).

• Experience with Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athenahealth.

• Familiarity with healthcare analytics and regulatory reporting.

• Exposure to AI/ML enablement in healthcare.

• Experience leading enterprise data modernization programs.

Success Metrics

• Improved Snowflake platform performance and scalability.

• Reduced cloud consumption and operational costs.

• Increased adoption of enterprise analytics capabilities.

• Enhanced healthcare data governance and compliance.

• Successful modernization of ETL/data integration ecosystem.

• Faster delivery of insights to clinical and operational teams.