Director Data Engineering and Data Management

HCA Healthcare; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with match

Education support

Student loan assistance

Adoption assistance

Job summary

HCA Healthcare seeks a Director of Data Engineering and Data Management to lead HR data strategy, governance, and delivery across data products, models, and quality. You will partner with HR, IT, and Analytics to enable enterprise reporting, analytics, and AI-ready capabilities.

You will drive cloud-native modernization, DataOps practices, and scalable data platforms while building a high-performing team and ensuring data security and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership role.
• 3-5+ years of experience leading technical data teams or complex cross-functional data initiatives.
• 7+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, data architecture, data management, BI engineering, or related roles, preferred.
• Experience supporting HR, healthcare, or highly governed data domains is preferred.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, MDM, and data quality programs is preferred.
• Google Cloud Platform certification or experience preferred.
• Power BI experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, development, governance, and delivery of HR data assets for reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Provide technical and organizational leadership across data engineering, modeling, metadata, data quality, and governance.
• Collaborate with HR, Enterprise Data, IT, BI, and Analytics to translate requirements into scalable data products.
• Set data product roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans aligned with HR and enterprise goals.
• Oversee HR data models, datasets, master data structures, semantic layers, metadata, lineage, and quality standards.
• Drive cloud-native modernization, automation, and DataOps patterns for HR data assets.
• Provide oversight of data pipelines, transformation logic, and data quality processes.
• Establish and mature governance, stewardship, documentation, and ownership across HR data domains.
• Build and develop a high-performing technical team; foster accountability and continuous improvement.
• Prepare HR data assets for AI, automation, and advanced analytics use cases.

Skills

Leadership

Data engineering

Data governance

Data modeling

Metadata management

Data quality

SQL development

Data architecture

Cloud-native

DataOps

Stakeholder liaison

HR data assets

AI readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Power BI

SQL

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Director Data Engineering and Data Management? At HCA Healthcare, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director of Data Engineering and Data Management is responsible for leading the strategy, development, governance, and delivery of HR data assets that enable reporting, analytics, self-service insights, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. This role provides technical and organizational leadership across data engineering, data modeling, metadata management, data quality, and governance practices. Working closely with HR, IT, Enterprise Data, and Analytics teams, the Director translates business needs into scalable, trusted, and reusable data products. The role is accountable for modernizing data delivery practices, establishing technical standards, and ensuring HR data assets are secure, well-governed, and positioned to support enterprise reporting, advanced analytics, and future AI initiatives.

This role will work a hybrid schedule out of our Capital View office in Nashville, TN.

Major Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, governance, and lifecycle management of HR data products, data models, metadata, master data, lineage, and quality standards.
• Partner with HR, Enterprise Data, IT, BI, and Analytics teams to translate business requirements into scalable data products, data models, metadata standards, quality controls, and delivery priorities.
• Serve as HR's primary liaison to the Enterprise Data Office, influencing priorities, validating delivered solutions, and ensuring alignment with HR business requirements.
• Establish data product roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans aligned with HR and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Lead the design and governance of HR data models, curated datasets, master data structures, semantic-layer enablement, metadata, lineage, and quality standards.
• Drive modernization of HR data assets through cloud-native architecture, automation, DataOps practices, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Provide technical oversight of data pipelines, transformation logic, SQL development, and data quality processes to ensure trusted and scalable data delivery.
• Establish and mature data governance, stewardship, documentation, and ownership practices across HR data domains.
• Build and develop a high-performing technical team while fostering accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and prepare HR data assets for emerging AI, automation, and advanced analytics use cases.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field required
• 3+ years of experience in leadership role required
• 3-5+ years of experience leading technical data teams or complex cross-functional data initiatives required
• 7+ years of experience in progressive experience with data engineering, analytics engineering, data architecture, data management, BI engineering, or related data roles preferred
• Experience supporting HR, workforce, healthcare, or other highly governed data domains preferred
• Demonstrated experience designing, modernizing, and governing enterprise-scale data assets preferred
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform preferred
• Experience partnering with centralized data, architecture, IT, governance, or AI teams in a complex enterprise environment preferred
• Experience managing or developing technical analysts, analytics engineers, data engineers, or architecture resources preferred
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, MDM, and data quality programs preferred

Licenses, Certifications, & Training:

• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred
• Relevant certifications in data governance, analytics engineering, cloud architecture, data quality, or Power BI preferred

Benefits

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Human Resources Group empowers our people to grow and give purpose to the HCA Healthcare culture. We deliver our Human Resource model in three sectors: HR Business Partners, HR Shared Operations and HR Centers of Excellence. HR Business Partner teams are critical to the success of our HR delivery model. We drive performance to achieve successful results to better care for our patients, communities and each other.

HCA Healthcare has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for ten consecutive years (2010-2019). In 2019, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Director Data Engineering and Data Management opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.