Head of Data Architecture

About this role

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values • Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.

• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits As a full-time employee of LifeStance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.

JD is in email - Hiring Range: $190,000 - $237,000. MIP: 25% LTIP: $100,000

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Director, Data Architecture owns the enterprise data model and the architecture standards that govern how data is structured, conformed and validated across the enterprise data platform. This player-coach leader defines and approves canonical models, Bronze and Silver design standards and conformance requirements, and holds architectural approval authority over enterprise data designs. The role directs a team of Technical Data Analysts, Data Quality Analysts and MDM Data Stewards who translate analytical use cases into model designs, validate that implemented data products conform to the approved design, and steward master data resolution. The role owns the logical and physical design of the enterprise data model; Data Engineering builds the pipelines that populate it and operates it in production. Architectural decisions made here govern how every enterprise data product is structured, secured and consumed, and carry direct consequence for HIPAA compliance, regulatory reporting accuracy and analytical trust. Technical Data Analysts are embedded as durable members of domain-oriented data-product teams alongside Data Engineers and Enterprise Analytics partners. The director leads the Data Architecture professional practice and ensures enterprise consistency while domain teams share one backlog, delivery plan and definition of done for high-quality silver data products. Consistent with LifeStance’s values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

COMPENSATION: $190,000 - $237,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus plan

KEY RESPONSIBILITES  

• Define, own and approve the enterprise data-architecture strategy, standards, decision framework and roadmap in alignment with data-platform, analytics, interoperability and AI priorities. • Hold architectural approval authority over enterprise data designs. New sources, models and integration patterns may not proceed to production without conformance to the standards this role establishes and approves. • Lead the development of enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical models covering core clinical, patient, provider, encounter/visits, payer, financial, operational and workforce domains. • Establish architectural standards across Bronze and Silver layers, including source-aligned schema models, schema organization, naming conventions, change-data-capture patterns, audit metadata standards, retention policies and PHI handling requirements. Bronze is a designed and governed layer, not an ungoverned raw landing zone. • Own the data quality and validation function for enterprise data products, directing Data Quality Analysts who define and execute validation rules confirming that implemented data is correct — no duplicate patients, every encounter tied to a valid provider, required fields populated, referential integrity intact and record counts reconciled to source. • Direct MDM Data Stewards responsible for resolving records flagged by the master data management platform, adjudicating identity matches and tracing global identifier history when the business identifies discrepancies. • Model conformed silver-layer entities, including grain, business keys, relationships, cardinality, history management, effective dating, canonical structures and cross-source reconciliation. • Lead, mentor and develop Technical Data Analysts and enterprise data modelers as a professional chapter, strengthening analytical discovery, source profiling, logical modeling, specification and validation capabilities. • Embed Technical Data Analysts as durable members of domain data-product teams, ensuring they participate from use-case discovery through implementation validation and consumer acceptance rather than functioning as an upstream requirements queue. • Partner with Enterprise Analytics and functional analytics teams to understand intended gold-layer products, analytical questions and metric needs without assuming ownership of business metric definitions, reports, dashboards or analytical interpretation. • Translate analytical use cases into implementable silver-layer designs, including entities, grain, relationships, historical requirements, source-to-target mappings, conformance rules, transformation requirements and acceptance criteria. • Partner with Data Engineers during source discovery and design to ensure logical models are technically feasible, source-aware and informed by physical implementation, performance and operational considerations. • Validate that implemented silver-layer products conform to the approved logical design and can support th

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