{"id":896948,"url":"https://alion.io/job/prolaio-sr-director-data-engineering-integrations","title":"Sr. Director, Data Engineering + Integrations","company":{"id":688731,"name":"Prolaio","domain":"prolaio.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/prolaio","size_band":"1-10","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":138000,"max_usd":285000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":2106},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Redshift","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Master Data Management","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-01T03:19:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-09","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T01:44:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":23,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":23},"description":"Who Are We?\nProlaio believes that continuous learning and collaboration can make a significant difference in how heart care is administered. We are creating smarter ways to address heart disease and heart risks by uniting patients, care teams, and researchers on a secure, technology-enabled platform that drives clinical innovation and offers a path towards better patient outcomes.\nThis is precision cardiology, and we know it’s within reach.\nWhat Will You Do?\nThe Overview\nThe Sr. Director, Data Engineering + Tooling will lead and scale Prolaio’s healthcare data engineering capabilities that power its clinical intelligence products, real-world data pipelines, analytics, data science, clinical operations, quality, and data services in a regulated environment, building secure, reliable, and AI-enabled data platforms that transform continuous, predictive, and shareable heart data into faster therapeutic discovery and better cardiovascular outcomes while operating as a self-starter senior leader in a growth-stage company. This role will ensure that core data engineering features and services are built with security, privacy, compliance, and auditability by design, and other regulatory expectations relevant to Prolaio’s clinical and patient-data environment. This role will partner with colleagues in Product, Engineering, Quality, Clinical Operations to embed security, privacy, HIPAA and regulatory expectations into every layer of the data engineering features. This is a role for a self-starter and experienced engineering leader who brings both organizational leadership and strong technical credibility in designing, building, and continuously enhancing data engineering and AI-enabled data pipeline features in a growth-stage company.\nThe Specifics\nLead Prolaio’s enterprise data engineering strategy and roadmap to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable data platform capabilities aligned to clinical, research, product, and AI priorities in regulated healthcare settings.\nArchitect and oversee end-to-end data flows and reusable pipelines for ingestion, validation, transformation, enrichment, publishing, retention, archival, and decommissioning across batch, streaming, and hybrid workloads. \nOwn the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and interoperable data platforms that support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured clinical, operational, device, and patient-generated data relevant to Prolaio’s cardiovascular mission. \nDefine and enforce engineering standards for data modeling, lifecycle management, lineage, provenance, traceability, and auditability, embedding HIPAA, privacy, security, and GxP-aligned practices into day-to-day development workflows.\nPartner closely with Data Architecture to design and govern conceptual, logical, and physical data models, apply healthcare standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, ICD, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, OMOP, CDISC), and deliver analysis-ready, interoperable datasets. \nBuild and evolve robust data engineering capabilities across modern cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse), including orchestration, metadata, APIs, and integration patterns. \nLead the development of AI-enabled data engineering features such as intelligent data quality monitoring, metadata enrichment, semantic search, feature generation workflows, and automation that accelerate analytics, data science, and clinical research teams.\nCollaborate with Quality, Clinical Operations, Security, Product, and Engineering to embed validation, change management, governed data access, master data management, and release readiness into the data platform lifecycle.\nEstablish and manage high-performing data engineering teams, providing clear ownership, coaching, and execution discipline suited to a fast-moving growth-stage environment, while influencing architecture and implementation decisions across a matrixed organization.\nSupport vendor and tool evaluation, including build-versus-buy decisions for data integration, quality, metadata, lineage, interoperability, and AI-enabled data management capabilities.\nWhy Prolaio?\n Impactful Work: You will join in the fight against heart failure (HF) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with the goal of extending and saving the lives of our patients while also being at the forefront of changing the healthcare industry through technology.\nInnovative Environment: You will be part of an organization doing something that’s never been done before.\nProfessional Growth: You will join a growing team and have a substantial impact on our daily and future operations with the opportunity to continuously learn and grow.\nCollaborative Team: You will be part of a team of collaborative, curious, and committed individuals focused on the collective good, inclusiveness, scientific excellence, and advancing digital health for cardiology.\nWho You Are?\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Biomedical Informatics, Engineering, or a related field.\nMinimum 15 years of experience in healthcare, medtech, life sciences, digital health, or another patient-focused environment, with meaningful responsibility for data platforms, platform engineering, or cloud-native enterprise platforms. \nAt least 7 years of experience as a Director or Sr. Director (or equivalent senior leadership role) leading data engineering or closely related data platform teams in growth-stage or innovation-driven organizations. \nDemonstrated experience architecting and delivering healthcare data platforms that support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, with proven success in regulated or validated environments. \nDeep understanding of healthcare data domains (clinical trials, cardiovascular and physiological data, real-world data, claims, medication, socio-economic and behavioral data) and the application of healthcare terminologies and common data models (e.g., HL7, FHIR, ICD, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, OMOP, CDISC). \nProven experience designing and operating end-to-end data flows, scalable pipelines, lineage, provenance, traceability, and data lifecycle management that support product, analytics, data science, clinical operations, quality, and data services use cases. \nStrong familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure and modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse, or comparable environments, including hands-on work with orchestration, APIs, and integration. \nStrong software engineering and data engineering experience with Python and SQL and at least one of Java or .NET, with a track record of building internal data platform features, services, and developer tooling; experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular or React) is good to have. Experience in developing Agentic pipelines would be a plus.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional, matrixed organizations, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Clinical Operations, Quality, and Security, with a self-starter mindset and comfort with ambiguity in a growth-stage environment.\nFamiliarity with metadata, lineage, catalog, governance, and AI-enablement tools, including platforms for semantic indexing, vectorization, retrieval, and data lifecycle automation, and experience implementing governed data access and privacy-aware architectures.\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here\nMeaningful Compensation: Competitive salary, performance bonus, and equity so you can share in what we build.\nGreat Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple options and strong company contributions.\nFlexible Spending Perks: HSA, FSA, commuter benefits, and a $1,200 annual Lifestyle Spending Account to support wellness, commuting, family needs, and more.\nTime to Recharge: Generous paid time off, sick leave, and company holidays.\nFamily-First Benefits: Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and support for growing families.\nSecurity & Peace of Mind: Company-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.\n Plan for the Future: 401(k) plan to help you build long-term financial security.\n Care When You Need It: Easy access to telehealth and optional supplemental coverage for life’s unexpected moments.\nStarting Salary is at $229,000.00 (Exact Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location","description_format":"text","description_chars":8417,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Equity","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Israel","iso":"IL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hardware","Health Care","Clinical Research"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-14T09:56:29Z"}],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.741,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/prolaio-sr-director-data-engineering-integrations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/prolaio-sr-director-data-engineering-integrations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T04:13:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}