Dir-Data Platform Engineering (Full-time Remote, North Carolina Based)

Alliance Health; Morrisville (NC); Remote; USD 131,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Hybrid/remote options

Paid time off

Dress flexibility

Job summary

Alliance Health seeks a Director of Data Platform Engineering to lead a cloud-native Lakehouse transformation and enterprise data strategy. This remote role requires NC residency for occasional onsite meetings at the Morrisville home office.

You will drive governance, security, and scalability across data domains, mentoring an engineering team and aligning technology with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with six years of data engineering or enterprise data platform leadership.
• Six years in increasing responsibilities in data engineering/architecture with three years in people management.
• Experience leading enterprise scale data platforms on Microsoft Azure, including Lakehouse or modernization initiatives.
• Healthcare regulatory experience with data security, privacy, and compliance outcomes.
• Microsoft Databricks Data Engineer Professional or comparable certification preferred within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and execute the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap.
• Lead transition from legacy EDW to a cloud-native Lakehouse and data platform.
• Establish platform success metrics for scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Oversee architecture designs and governance across data domains.
• Mentor and grow the Data Platform Engineering team and governance functions.
• Provide executive oversight on data domain migrations and modernization delivery.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

PySpark

CI/CD

DevOps

Azure

HIPAA compliance

Agile

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Masters preferred

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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Dir-Data Platform Engineering (Full-time Remote, North Carolina Based)

• Remote
• Data Operations
• Full-Time

Location

Home Office
Morrisville, NC 27560, USA

Description

The Director-Data Platform Engineering is responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, and delivery of Alliance Health’s modern cloud based data engineering platform, replacing the legacy Enterprise Data Warehouse operating model.

The Director-Data Platform Engineering provides enterprise accountability for the design, development, operation, and continuous evolution of the data platform, ensuring secure, scalable, and high quality data products that support analytics, reporting, interoperability, regulatory compliance, and organizational decision making. The Director leads the Data Platform Engineering team and oversees the phased migration and sunset of legacy EDW capabilities as data domains transition to the modern platform.

This position is full-time remote. Selected candidate must reside in North Carolina and be willing to travel to the home office (Morrisville, NC) for onsite team meetings as needed. Responsibilities & Duties

Data Platform Strategy and Enterprise Leadership

• Define, own, and execute the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap aligned with Alliance Health’s Data Modernization Initiative
• Lead the transition from legacy EDW architecture to a cloud native Lakehouse and data engineering platform
• Establish platform success metrics related to scalability, reliability, performance, cost management, and business value
• Serve as the executive level authority for enterprise data platform direction and technical decision making

Organizational Leadership and Workforce Development

• Lead and develop the Data Platform Engineering team, including the Cloud Data Architect, Lead Cloud Data Engineer, Cloud Data Engineers, Data Quality Engineer, Business Analyst, and Data Governance Analyst
• Establish role clarity, career pathways, and performance expectations aligned with Alliance Health’s IT Job Architecture
• Coach and mentor senior technical staff to strengthen leadership capability, engineering discipline, and platform ownership
• Build a sustainable internal delivery model that reduces long term reliance on consultants

Engineering Governance and Technical Oversight

• Establish and enforce enterprise standards for data ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, medallion and Lakehouse architecture patterns, CI/CD, DevOps, and environment management, and monitoring, observability, and production support
• Provide oversight and approval for complex architecture and solution designs impacting the enterprise data platform
• Ensure consistency of engineering practices across data domains and delivery teams

Data Quality, Security, and Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure enterprise wide data quality standards, validation frameworks, and monitoring capabilities are implemented
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Governance teams to ensure adherence to HIPAA and HITECH requirements, data classification, encryption, access controls, and audit logging
• Maintain accountability for platform stability, incident response, and root cause remediation

Program Delivery and Legacy EDW Sunset

• Provide executive oversight for data domain migrations, analytics and reporting modernization, and decommissioning of legacy EDW assets
• Manage cross functional dependencies, delivery risks, and sequencing of modernization activities
• Ensure transparent reporting on delivery status, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership

Stakeholder Engagement and Executive Communication

• Act as the primary liaison between IT leadership, business stakeholders, analytics teams, and external partners for data platform initiatives
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical capabilities
• Communicate platform strategy, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive leadership

Education & Experience

Required :

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, with six (6) years of experience with increasing responsibilities in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data platform leadership and three (3) years of experience in people management, platform governance, and cross functional delivery. Demonstrate experience leading enterprise scale data platforms on Microsoft Azure, including data Lakehouse or data warehouse modernization initiatives.

Experience should also include operating in regulated environments, preferably healthcare, with responsibility for data security, privacy, and compliance outcomes.

Microsoft Certified Databricks Data Engineer Professional or comparable technical certification is preferred at the time of hire and must be obtained within 12 months of employment if not already held.

Preferred :

Master’s degree from and accredited college/university in computer science or related field, with five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data platform leadership.

Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Databricks Professional, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ 500) or comparable technical certification is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Implementing and maintaining enterprise-scale Medallion data platforms on Microsoft Azure
• Databricks Development
• Python, SQL, PySpark, SQL, and modern data engineering frameworks
• DevOps, Git and CI/CD best practices
• Agile methodology and tools
• HIPAA/HITECH compliance in cloud architectures
• Technical documentation skills
• Communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting

Employment for this position is contingent upon a satisfactory background and credit check, which will be performed after acceptance of an offer of employment and prior to the employee's start date.

Salary Range

$131,191-$167,268/Annually

Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity.

An excellent fringe benefit package accompanies the salary, which includes:

• Generous retirement savings plan
• Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
• Dress flexibility

Qualifications

Education

Required

Bachelors or better in Computer Science.

Bachelors or better in Other.

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