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Senior Staff Database Architect
Location
Colorado + 3 moreAll locations: Colorado | Kansas | Nevada | Utah
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$135.8K - $203.8K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Database Architect
Thermo Fisher Scientific
• 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
Job 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
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