Principal Data Architect

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company.  Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.  With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

• Integrity: Do the right thing. Especially when it’s hard.
• Courage: Embrace the challenge.
• Together: Build bridges and lift up your colleagues.

The Engineering team at SmithRx is developing the next-generation modern pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform to change how companies administer and manage pharmacy benefits. Our unified technology platform provides real-time actionable insights that drive cost savings, power clinical services, and result in a brilliant customer experience. A unified technology platform exists nowhere in the pharmacy benefit ecosystem to programmatically solve widespread deficiencies. The result is a PBM delivering unmatched service quality and operational efficiencies that exceeds all industry standards.

We are looking for a Principal Data Architect to be part of our Data Engineering team to drive and enable our data capabilities in transforming our company into a data-driven organization and help lay the foundations of a robust data ecosystem. This role will own the technical leadership and bridge between engineering, platform, and data engineering with responsibilities in defining, planning, delivering, and supporting the implementation of our production data architecture to drive business value and growth. He/She will advocate and bring best practices/methodologies, and documentation with a heavy emphasis on design and architectural decisions.

• Lead a data architecture board (engineering, platform, and data engineering) with responsibility for data architectural design, performance tuning, administration, data security, and protection. 

• Monitor and optimize the performance of database systems. Develops flexible, maintainable, and reusable data engineering solutions using standards, best practices, and frameworks with a focus on efficiency and innovation

• Provide technical guidance, solid design principles, and support to developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders.

• Ensure that data is secure and protected from unauthorized access or modification. Implement security protocols such as encryption, access controls, and data backup and recovery procedures.

• Identify and contributes to opportunities for technology improvements, tooling innovations, best practices, and vendor evaluations

• Drive engineering excellence and lead craftsmanship in building, testing, and optimizing ETL/feature/metric pipelines

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience.

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related field.

• Strong database architecture, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to handle ambiguous, and evolving requirements

• Good understanding of the latest database structure and types. Ability to architect and implement the database design based on the use cases. (OLTP, No SQL, document store, OLAP, graph, and time series databases).

• Prior experience in production database/data warehouse admin and performance optimization, security best practices to ensure operational excellence

• Expert in SQL, Python, Shell programming, Spark (Batch/Streaming), SparkSQL, PySpark, CI/CD, and automated testing capabilities 

• Experience in data technologies (AWS Redshift, Postgres DB, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, Terraform, Kubernetes, Spark, pySpark, etc.)

• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams and influence stakeholders to consider alternate viewpoints. 

What SmithRx Offers You: 

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance 
• Flexible Spending Benefits 
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program 
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Discretionary Time Off 
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Wellness benefits- Spring Health, Gympass, and Headspace
• Commuter Benefits 
• Paid Parental Leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
• Professional development and training opportunities