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This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, architecture, and data governance. You will help define the technical direction of the platform while remaining actively involved in designing solutions, building infrastructure, reviewing code, troubleshooting production issues, and improving engineering practices.\nThis is not a management role. While you will mentor and guide junior engineers, analytics engineers, and platform contributors, you will not have direct reports. We are looking for an experienced practitioner who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, setting high engineering standards, and leading through expertise and influence rather than organizational hierarchy.\nAs a member of the Data Hub leadership team, you will contribute to technology strategy, roadmap prioritization, architecture governance, vendor evaluation, and executive reporting while remaining deeply engaged in day-to-day engineering activities.\nMain duties and responsibilities \nInfrastructure and Platform Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native data platform infrastructure.\nDevelop infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management processes.\nPartner with Corporate IT, Security, and platform vendors to ensure compliance, reliability, and operational excellence.\nImprove platform observability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance tracking.\nData Architecture and Modelling\nDesign scalable data models supporting analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and operational use cases.\nDefine and evolve data architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across the Data Hub ecosystem.\nEnsure data solutions align with governance, lineage, security, and regulatory requirements.\nGuide engineering teams in implementing maintainable and extensible data structures.\nData Engineering and Solution Delivery\nBuild and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines across multiple business domains.\nLead technical design reviews and contribute directly to implementation of complex data engineering initiatives.\nCollaborate with Product, Analytics, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.\nProvide hands-on support for critical platform initiatives, migrations, and modernization programs.\nDevOps and Engineering Excellence\nEstablish and enforce software engineering, GitOps, DevOps, testing, and deployment standards.\nDrive automation across development, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.\nPromote best practices for code quality, documentation, technical debt management, and release management.\nConduct architecture reviews and code reviews to ensure consistency and maintainability.\nQuality, Performance, and Reliability Optimization\nIdentify and resolve performance bottlenecks across pipelines, databases, and infrastructure.\nDefine and implement data quality frameworks, automated validation processes, and operational controls.\nOptimize platform cost, scalability, reliability, and processing efficiency.\nLead root-cause analysis and remediation efforts for production incidents and operational challenges.\nTechnical Leadership and Mentorship\nMentor Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and other technical contributors through coaching, code reviews, pair programming, and design guidance.\nAct as a trusted technical advisor across multiple teams and business units.\nShare knowledge, develop engineering standards, and promote continuous improvement across the Data Hub organization.\nHelp elevate the technical capabilities of the broader engineering team.\nStrategic Planning and Cross-Functional Collaboration\nParticipate in Data Hub leadership activities, including roadmap planning, prioritization discussions, technology evaluations, and executive reporting.\nProvide technical recommendations on platform investments, vendor selection, architecture direction, and engineering standards.\nCollaborate closely with Data Product Management, AI/ML teams, business stakeholders, and Corporate IT to ensure alignment between business priorities and technical execution.\nEducation and Experience\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, Information Systems, or related field. Equivalent experience considered. Advance degree preferred but not required.\nRequired:\n8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related technical disciplines.\nDemonstrated expertise designing and implementing modern cloud-based data platforms.\nStrong hands-on experience with data warehousing, orchestration, transformation, and DevOps technologies.\nExperience building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines and data models.\nDeep understanding of software engineering principles, infrastructure automation, and production operations.\nExperience operating in highly regulated, compliance-sensitive, or enterprise environments.\nProven track record of leading technical initiatives through influence rather than direct authority.\nPreferred:\nExperience within healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or analytics organizations.\nExperience supporting AI/ML platforms, MLOps capabilities, feature stores, or model deployment frameworks.\nFamiliarity with claims, formulary, commercial, or real-world evidence datasets.\nExperience leading enterprise-scale data migrations, modernization programs, or platform consolidations.\nExposure to global engineering teams and distributed delivery models.\nKnowledge, Skills and Competencies\nTechnical Expertise\nAdvanced knowledge of cloud data platforms, modern data architecture, and platform engineering.\nDeep expertise in data modelling, query optimization, and analytical data design.\nAbility to evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches.\nExpert-level SQL and strong Python skills.\nInfrastructure and DevOps\nStrong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, containerization, and deployment automation.\nExperience implementing operational monitoring, incident management, alerting, and observability solutions.\nKnowledge of security, access management, and platform governance best practices.\nStrong understanding of scalability, resilience, and performance engineering.\nLeadership and Influence\nLeads through credibility, expertise, and collaboration rather than formal authority. Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.\nComfortable facilitating technical discussions and driving consensus among diverse stakeholders and ability to influence architecture and technology decisions across teams.\nCommunication and Collaboration\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills and able to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nEffective stakeholder management across engineering, product, business, and executive teams. Strong decision-making and prioritization skills in ambiguous environments.\nTechnical Environment\nYou will work across a modern data and AI ecosystem that may include:\nData Platforms: Snowflake, AWS Redshift, S3\nTransformation: dbt, Matillion\nOrchestration: Airflow, Dagster\nData Governance: Snowflake Horizon\nData Quality: dbt tests, Elementary\nInfrastructure & DevOps: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps\nAI/ML: Snowpark ML, MLflow, Snowflake Feature Store, LangChain\nLanguages: SQL, Python\nAny data provided as a part of this application will be stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy. For CA applicants, please also refer to our CA Privacy Notice.\nPrecision Medicine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.\nIf you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Precision Medicine Group at .\nRecruitment Fraud Warning: Please be aware that fraudulent individuals and websites may impersonate Precision Medicine Group or its affiliates and attempt to obtain personal, financial, or banking information through fake job postings or employment offers. Precision Medicine Group will never request payment, banking details, or other sensitive financial information as part of the recruitment process. 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