Database Architect - InteleShare

• Compensation: USD 116,250 - USD 155,000 - yearly

Improving healthcare through innovative technology is at the core of Intelerad’s work. Our scalable medical imaging platform connects clinicians to a powerful imaging ecosystem that is fast, smart, and tapped into the data they need, no matter their location. We’re focused on delivering a best-in-class medical image management solution that improves provider efficiency, decreases the cost of healthcare, and improves the overall health of populations.

Intelerad offers one of healthcare’s most comprehensive imaging and analytics platforms. Headquartered in Raleigh, NC and Montreal, Intelerad has nearly 700 employees located in offices across six countries. The company empowers nearly 2,000 healthcare organizations around the world with the speed, scalability, and simplicity needed to increase business performance while, most importantly, improving patient outcomes. Intelerad’s modern enterprise solutions have been acknowledged by a Best in KLAS recognition, ranking #1 for PACS Asia/Oceania in the 2021 Best in KLAS:
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Role Overview

The Database Architect designs, implements, and optimizes the database architecture that powers Intelerad's medical imaging solutions. This strategic technical leader will be responsible for creating scalable, secure, and high-performance database systems that support our PACS, RIS, and enterprise imaging platforms serving healthcare providers and imaging centers globally. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in database design, data modeling, and performance optimization within large-scale, mission-critical environments where system reliability directly impacts patient care.

This role requires balancing technical excellence with business needs, collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure our data architecture supports both current operations and future growth in the healthcare IT sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-wide database architectures for Intelerad's medical imaging platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability to support healthcare providers' diagnostic workflows and patient care delivery across multiple deployment models including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive data models, schemas, and database documentation that align with healthcare interoperability standards including DICOM, HL7, and FHIR, while optimizing storage strategies for large-scale medical imaging data and ensuring efficient retrieval for clinical workflows.
• Establish and enforce database development standards, security protocols, and compliance frameworks to meet healthcare regulations including HIPAA, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and availability across all database systems while implementing robust backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Lead database performance optimization initiatives through query tuning, indexing strategies, and capacity planning, proactively monitoring system health and implementing solutions that maintain sub-second response times critical for real-time diagnostic imaging access in clinical settings.
• Collaborate with software engineering, Dev Ops, and infrastructure teams to integrate database systems with application architecture, evaluate and recommend database technologies and platforms, and provide technical leadership on database migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives that support product innovation and operational excellence.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in database…