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Introduction

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Principal Data Architect today with HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

+ Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

+ Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

+ Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

+ 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

+ Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

+ Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

+ Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

+ Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

+ Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

+ Colleague recognition program

+ Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

+ Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._

Come join our team as a Senior Principal Data Architect. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Position Summary

The Senior Principal Data Architect role is responsible for providing organization-level and cross-functional technical leadership across all facets of data modeling, data infrastructure, and data platform design and implementation. This role will perform wide-scale technical feasibility, process oversight, and impact analysis to make recommendations for data infrastructure, storage solutions, and data platforms.

This role will provide leadership and technical mentorship to foster a collaborative and effective working relationship between business partners, analysts, developers, and other teams within the organization. The incumbent may be assigned to evaluate and secure direct staff or contractors and develop work-breakdown structures, assign tasks, and provide support and technical oversight to the development managers. The incumbent must also keep appraised of, review, and take part in organizational technology strategic initiatives and take responsibility to align their projects to those initiatives.

The role requires the incumbent to possess excellent communication, proposal, and presentation skills to inform senior management and development staff of status and direction. This role requires initiative to develop good working relationships with other teams, leaders, subject-matter experts, and business partners in the enterprise is fundamental to the success of the candidate in this role.

Major Responsibilities:

• Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues to achieve business objectives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders (business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional data requirements.

• Lead investigations and solution proposals to data architecture and design problems.

• Ensure alignment to related organization technical strategic initiatives.

• Guide team members in scope of work estimation and forecasting.

• Be a community leader on architecture, design, implementation, and security standards and best practices for a specific domain in data architecture and engineering.

• Perform proof-of-concept or proof-of-technology tasks to get buy-in from cohorts and stakeholders.

• Prepare and present designs, feasibility, and impact analysis of solutions to a variety of audiences from senior management to analysts and developers.

• Manage any assigned staff or evaluate and secure direct staff or contractors and develop work-breakdown structures, assign tasks, and provide support and technical oversight to the development managers.

• Produce sufficient architectural and design documentation necessary to properly guide development teams; items may include: logical and physical data models, data flow diagrams, entity-relationship models, data lineage diagrams, and data platform architecture diagrams.

• Formulate data quality rules and validation tests and conduct data pipeline performance and load testing where appropriate.

• Adhere to and influence established data governance and engineering practices and processes.

• Practice and adhere to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement."

• Develop good working relationships with other teams, leaders, subject-matter experts, and business partners in the enterprise.

• Train and mentor peers and other staff.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or database development roles required

• Business related degrees or certificates Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors Required:

• Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.

• Extensive experience designing and implementing solutions across the data ecosystem, demonstrating deep expertise in a combination of the following:

• Data Modeling & Database Design: Mastery of relational design principles (normalization, integrity) and schema design for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Experience with dimensional modeling (star/snowflake schemas).

• Database Technologies: In-depth knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, MongoDB), including advanced strategies for indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning.

• Data Platforms & Warehousing: Experience with modern cloud data warehouses and lakehouse platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Google BigQuery).

• Data Integration & Engineering: Expertise in designing and building scalable batch (ETL/ELT) and real-time data pipelines using tools like Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow, and custom solutions.

• Data Streaming & Messaging: Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, message queues, and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, GCP PubSub) for real-time data ingestion and processing.

• Distributed Data & Advanced Concepts: Deep knowledge of distributed data design principles, data replication strategies, eventual consistency, caching patterns, and data governance concerns in a large-scale enterprise environment.

• Experience interfacing with or working within CRM, ERP, eCommerce, or EMR/EHR solutions and common integration patterns.

• Experience with DevOps/DataOps tooling (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps) and CI/CD for data pipelines.

• Experience with data modeling and diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart).

• Strong experience in cloud-native data solutions, deploying within cloud environments, and leveraging serverless and/or container-based data services.

• Strong understanding of data governance principles, including data quality, data lineage, and Master Data Management (MDM).

• Strong understanding of agile methodology and its application to data projects.

• Experience with formal project management (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure).

• Experience supporting business case development, budgeting, contracting, and negotiation.

• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product management, and other functions involved in the product lifecycle.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.

• Ability to lead community events with a focus on data architecture or engineering.

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

• Troubleshooting skills including experience with utilities for performance tuning, query plan analysis, and data pipeline monitoring.

• Ability to work independently and lead a team to specific outcomes.

• Strong ability to understand context for data models, data flows, and their relation to business objectives.

• Understanding of IT contracting and purchasing practices.

• Ability to lead technical interviews of potential candidates of varying levels.

• Ability to sit for long periods of time.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Principal Data Architect opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. **Unlock the possibilities and apply today!**

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.