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Our mission is to provide a seamless,\npersonalized, and efficient healthcare experience for all our customers. We're a dynamic,\ninnovative, and customer-centric company dedicated to making a positive impact on people's\nlives.\nPosition Summary\nWe are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own one or more domains of the data platform,\nset their long-term technical direction, and manage a team of senior and mid-level data\nengineers. This position plays a key role in supporting the Data Engineering department and\nreports to the Manager, Data Engineering, ensuring alignment with organizational goals,\noperational excellence, and compliance standards.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn one or more domains of the data platform on a continuing basis. The initial assignment is expected to be ingestion and orchestration, including the transition off the current managed ingestion platform, replacement connectors, scheduling, and theinterface between raw data and the dbt layer. Other potential domains include the transformation layer and client-facing data feeds.\nSet technical direction for assigned domains, including source onboarding, incremental modeling standards, and decisions on when to rebuild existing pipelines. Document designs prior to development and serve as the final reviewer for domain work.\nDevelop and maintain a 12 to 18 month roadmap for each assigned domain, subject to approval by Data & Analytics leadership.\nEstablish engineering standards and code review practices for assigned domains for adoption across the Data Engineering team.\nManage the domain backlog, set priorities, and allocate team capacity across stakeholder requests.\nEnsure the accuracy and timeliness of scheduled client data feeds to manufacturers by building and maintaining testing, monitoring, and reconciliation processes.\nTrack and report domain performance to Data, Analytics & AI leadership, including feed timeliness, data accuracy, incident volume, and operating cost.\nLead incident response for assigned domains, including escalation, post-incident reviews, and corrective actions.\nDesign and implement a data quality framework for assigned domains, which includes validation rules, automated testing, monitoring & alerting, and report data quality metrics to stakeholders.\nDesign and maintain data access controls that meet HIPAA and BAA requirements including masking policies and role-based access.\nManage two to three senior and mid-level data engineers, with responsibility for hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance reviews, compensation recommendations, and performance management. Approximately 65% of time is expected to be hands-on technical work.\nDevelop budget recommendations for domain tooling and infrastructure, such as ingestion connectors and Snowflake compute. Lead vendor evaluations (e.g., replacement of the current managed ingestion platform) and present recommendations to the Director, Data, Analytics & AI for approval.\nServe as the primary point of contact for assigned domains with product, engineering, pharmacy operations, compliance, and account management teams.\nContribute to the entity-resolution layer that matches patient and provider identities across a variety of source systems.\nQualifications\nEducation: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or comparable work experience.\nLicensure/Certification: Not applicable to this role.\nExperience: 7 to 10 years of data engineering experience, including production ownership of a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred) and at least one year of direct people management experience.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nRequired:\nProduction ownership of a cloud data warehouse; Snowflake experience preferred.\nExpert-level SQL and proficiency in Python, including the ability to troubleshoot complex SQL and dbt models.\nExperience with dbt at scale, including incremental models, testing, CI, and project structure.\nProduction experience with an orchestration tool such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.\nExperience owning a platform area or major system over multiple years including setting its direction and accountability for results.\nAt least one year of direct people management experience, including hiring, performance reviews, and developing engineers at multiple levels.\nExperience implementing automated data quality testing and alerting.\nAbility to communicate data issues, business impact, and resolution timelines to client-facing teams.\nWorking knowledge of healthcare data, PHI, and HIPAA requirements.\nDemonstrated ability to lead a team and set technical direction for a domain.\nExperience developing technical roadmaps and making build-versus-buy and vendor recommendations supported by cost analysis.\nStrong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.\nPreferred:\nExperience with healthcare, pharmacy, or other regulated data, including PHI, HIPAA, and BAAs.\nExperience with large-scale data platform migrations.\nExperience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform.\nExperience with identity resolution or master data management.\nExperience building custom ingestion connectors.\nFamiliarity with Looker and LookML. Looker is the primary BI platform at Gifthealth, with Metabase also in use and Domo being retired.\nWork Environment\nLocation: Columbus, OH or remote (US).\nSchedule: Full-time.\nOn-call availability may be required to support scheduled client data feeds.\nRegular meetings with the Data Engineering team, direct reports, and Data, Analytics & AI leadership.\nKey Essential Functions\nNot applicable. This is a standard office/remote engineering role with no physical labor requirements.\nPeriodic on-site visits to the Columbus distribution center and call center are expected, primarily during onboarding.\nEmployment Classification\nStatus: Full-time\nFLSA: Exempt\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement\nGifthealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any\nkind. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual\norientation, gender identity, transgender status, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or\nany other legally protected status.\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all\nemployees. 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