Data Architect

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Data Architect

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140K-200K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Analytics • Biotech • Generative AI
Tempus is a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine and patient care.
The Role
Design the architecture for a healthcare data ecosystem ensuring integration of structured and unstructured data for AI use while maintaining data quality and governance.
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Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Data Architect to design the structural backbone of a high-scale multi-modal healthcare data ecosystem. You will be responsible for architecting data environments that serve massive networks of hospitals ensuring that diverse data types—ranging from structured EHR records to unstructured genomic and imaging data—are seamlessly accessible to autonomous AI agents.

Our goal is to move beyond static data warehousing to create a dynamic "agent-ready" data fabric that supports real-time clinical evaluation at an enterprise scale.

What You’ll Do
  • Multi-Modal Architecture: Lead the design and management of an enterprise data model that integrates complex domains including clinical EHR records high-throughput genomics (NGS) and cardiovascular imaging (Echo Cath ECG).

  • Scale for Hospital Networks: Architect data solutions designed to scale across federated networks of hospitals ensuring multi-tenancy high availability and performance across hybrid cloud environments.

  • Enable Agentic Workflows: Design data access patterns and metadata layers specifically optimized for AI agents allowing them to autonomously discover query and reason over structured and unstructured datasets.

  • Schema & API Ownership: Author and maintain entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) data dictionaries and API specifications across multiple technologies (Relational NoSQL Vector Databases).

  • Data Quality & Traceability: Implement automated solutions to monitor data quality and lineage with strict traceability back to source systems ensuring "ground truth" for agentic evaluations.

  • Technical Advocacy: Educate engineering and clinical teams on data modeling standards governance and best practices for maintaining data integrity in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

Experience & Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Health Informatics or a related field.

  • Professional Experience: 7+ years in data architecture or enterprise modeling with significant experience in the healthcare or life sciences domain.

  • Modeling Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of 3NF Dimensional (Star Schema) and Data Vault 2.0 modeling techniques.

  • Advanced SQL & Python: Exceptional SQL skills for complex analytical environments and proficiency in Python for data profiling and debugging.

  • Technology Strategy: Ability to articulate the trade-offs between RDBMS MPP and NoSQL technologies and experience implementing Master Data Management (MDM) solutions.

  • Interoperability Standards: Deep familiarity with HL7 FHIR and Epic/Cerner data structures.

  • Tools: Proficiency with modeling tools such as Erwin Vertabelo or Lucidchart.

Bonus Points
  • AI Data Engineering: Experience with Vector databases (e.g. Pinecone Weaviate or pgvector) or Graph databases to support RAG and agentic memory.

  • Cloud Architecture: Hands-on experience with GCP (BigQuery Vertex AI) or AWS healthcare-native services.

  • Specialized Clinical Data: Direct experience working with EHR OMOP DICOM genomic data models or longitudinal patient records.

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Chi: $140000-$190000

NYC/SF: $150000-$200000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from California and may vary for other locations (Colorado Illinois New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

Additionally for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information including intellectual property trade secrets and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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. 

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The Company
HQ: Chicago IL
3775 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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