Data Platform Lead: Lakehouse & AI

Brighter Signals; New Brunswick (NJ); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Domestic/international travel up to 20

Vacation – 120 hours per year

Sick time – 40 hours per year

Holiday pay – 13 days per year

Parental Leave – 480 hours/year

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours/year

Job summary

DePuy Synthes is recruiting a Data Platform Manager to own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for a modern data platform enabling trusted data products, analytics, and AI across Orthopedics. You will lead the Data Foundation initiative to establish a scalable lakehouse using Databricks, cloud services, and medallion architecture.

You will provide technical leadership for data governance, ingestion, testing, observability, and production readiness while coordinating with business separation

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience leading design, implementation, or modernization of a data platform or lakehouse.

Responsibilities

• Own and implement the Data Platform and Data Foundation strategy, target architecture, roadmap, engineering standards, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the design and evolution of a scalable Databricks lakehouse using medallion architecture, reusable data products, and cloud-native services.
• Design, build, and scale reusable, metadata-driven data ingestion and data pipeline frameworks, including batch and streaming patterns, source onboarding, transformation, orchestration, schema evolution, auditability, and embedded data-quality controls.
• Establish platform engineering standards for data modeling, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, security, performance, cost efficiency, and production readiness.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark

Python

SQL

Delta Lake

Azure / AWS

Data governance

Data pipelines

Team leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Information Systems or related field

Tools

dbt

Apache Airflow

Azure Data Factory

AWS Glue

Job description

DePuy Synthes is recruiting a Data Platform Manager to own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for a modern data platform enabling trusted data products, analytics, and AI across Orthopedics. You will lead the Data Foundation initiative to establish a scalable lakehouse using Databricks, cloud services, and medallion architecture.

You will provide technical leadership for data governance, ingestion, testing, observability, and production readiness while coordinating with business separation