Remote Data Architect MDM (Provider/Physician Data | Healthcare Domain)

Location: Remote (PST hours)
Type: Contract
Time Zone: PST hours preferred

Overview:
Looking for a hands-on Data Architect with strong experience in Master Data Management (MDM) focused on healthcare provider/physician data. The ideal candidate will design and implement MDM solutions to manage provider information across systems. This is not a health insurance or payer data role - experience must come from the healthcare provider side (e.g., hospitals, health systems, physician networks).

Key Skills:

• Strong hands-on SQL and Databricks experience

• Deep experience in MDM design & implementation (match/merge logic, survivorship rules, data modeling, cleansing workflows)

• Background in provider or physician data - examples: practitioner master, credentialing, NPI, specialty, affiliations, Epic provider master, HL7/FHIR integrations

• Experience building data pipelines, data modeling, and integrating provider data with enterprise data platforms

• Knowledge of data quality frameworks, governance, and metadata management

• Good communicator - able to work with business and clinical stakeholders

Ideal fit:

• Candidates who have worked with provider or physician MDM systems in hospitals, EHR environments (Epic, Cerner), or healthcare networks.
• Those who built or maintained provider master data, credentialing databases, or provider directories.
• Backgrounds showing collaboration between data engineering and clinical operations teams.

Not a Fit:

• Candidates from health insurance, payer, or claims data background only.
• Pure data engineers without MDM or healthcare provider exposure.
• Profiles that mention member data, claims, or policy systems as their main focus.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with MDM tools (Reltio, Informatica MDM, Semarchy, Profisee, IBM MDM, Unity Catalog)

• Experience with FHIR, HL7, NPI registries, credentialing sources

• Prior work with data stewardship or governance roles