Healthcare Data Architect

You’re an important part of our future. Hopefully, we're also a part of your future At B. Braun, we protect and improve the health of people worldwide. You support this vision, bringing expertise and sharing innovation, efficiency and sustainability as values. That’s why we would like to keep developing our company with you. Keeping your future in mind, we’re making a joint contribution to health care worldwide, with trust, transparency and appreciation. That's Sharing Expertise.
Job Posting

Location:
Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainFunctional Area: Information TechnologyWorking Model: HybridRequisition ID: 14045About the RoleAs a Healthcare Data Architect within the Group Digital Department, you will play a key role in shaping B. Braun's Digital Foundation by establishing a consistent, interoperable, and business-driven healthcare data architecture across digital health solutions, analytics platforms, and patient-centric services.
Functionally guided by the Center of Competence (CoC) Corporate Data Management, you will work closely with product teams, healthcare experts, engineers, architects, and governance stakeholders to ensure that healthcare data can be understood, trusted, governed, exchanged, and reused across the organization.
You will be responsible for defining and evolving the healthcare data architecture supporting the Digital Foundation, including the Data Intelligence Platform (DIP) and Data Hub. Your primary focus will be enabling semantic interoperability between healthcare systems, medical devices, clinical workflows, digital health applications, and analytics solutions.
The role combines strong healthcare domain expertise with data architecture, interoperability, analytics, and governance capabilities. You will translate clinical and business requirements into conceptual and logical information models, canonical healthcare data structures, reusable data products, and standards-aligned specifications that support advanced analytics, AI, reporting, and secondary use of healthcare data.
You will work with healthcare interoperability standards and terminologies including:HL7 FHIRHL7 v2SNOMED CTLOINCICDUCUMDICOM / DICOMwebIHE ProfilesOMOP Common Data ModelThe ultimate goal of the role is to ensure that healthcare data remains semantically consistent, interoperable, privacy-compliant, and reusable across the entire healthcare data lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
Define and maintain the target healthcare data architecture for Digital Foundation solutions.
Design conceptual, logical, and canonical healthcare information models that accurately represent healthcare concepts, entities, workflows, and business meaning.
Ensure alignment between healthcare business requirements, analytical models, interoperability standards, and technical implementations.
Develop architecture blueprints and data architecture principles supporting healthcare data integration, sharing, analytics, and AI initiatives.
Contribute to the long-term evolution of the organization’s healthcare data ecosystem and interoperability strategy.
Semantic Modeling and Information DesignTranslate healthcare and business requirements into governed data requirements and information models.
Establish common healthcare vocabularies and semantic standards across products and platforms.
Design reusable canonical models for patients, encounters, observations, medications, procedures, devices, organizations, practitioners, and related healthcare domains.
Define relationships, cardinalities, identifiers, references, provenance, and lifecycle management of healthcare information.
Ensure preservation of clinical meaning throughout data transformations and integrations.
Define and govern mappings between source systems, healthcare standards, analytical models, and data products.
Apply healthcare interoperability standards including:HL7 FHIRHL7 v2DICOM / DICOMwebIHE ProfilesOMOPSupport interoperability initiatives across hospitals, healthcare providers, medical devices, patient-facing applications, and analytics platforms.
Identify and resolve semantic interoperability gaps between systems and domains.
Provide architectural guidance for API-based, event-driven, and standards-based healthcare integrations.
FHIR Architecture and GovernanceAuthor, review, govern, and validate FHIR implementation artifacts, including:StructureDefinitionsProfilesExtensionsValueSetsCodeSystemsConceptMapsExamplesImplementation GuidesDefine conformance rules and implementation guidance for healthcare solutions.
Review FHIR implementations to ensure consistency, interoperability, and compliance with defined standards.
Support establishment of FHIR governance processes, implementation patterns, and best practices.
Terminology and Clinical SemanticsDefine terminology strategies and governance processes.
Collaborate with clinical experts and domain specialists to ensure accurate representation of healthcare concepts.
Maintain mappings and relationships across:SNOMED CTLOINCICDUCUMOther healthcare code system