Director, Data Platform Engineering & Tooling

Zelis; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Health benefits (medical, dental,视觉)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Zelis is advancing as an AI-native company, with Zelis Data Cloud underpinning analytics and AI. The Director, Data Platforms & Tooling owns Snowflake platform engineering, CI/CD, and governance, delivering a secure, scalable data foundation across data-warehouse, data-lake, and Data Sharing.

You’ll lead a cross-functional team and partner with Security and Compliance on HIPAA/PHI. The role emphasizes architecture, standards, cost governance, and enabling Cortex AI workloads, with a hybrid U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data platform / data engineering, including 4+ years in engineering leadership.
• Deep Snowflake platform architecture experience at enterprise scale, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
• Strong DevOps / CI/CD / IaC background for data platforms (Terraform, dbt, schemachange, Git-based workflows).
• Proven ownership of platform governance and security, ideally including sensitive-data protection.
• Experience setting reference architecture and standards adopted across multiple teams.
• Deep experience running Snowflake on AWS (S3, storage integrations, networking) and familiarity with core AWS services and cloud cost management.

Responsibilities

• Snowflake platform engineering & scalability—own architecture, scalability, and roadmap across data-warehouse, data-lake, and Data Sharing.
• Foundational tooling, CI/CD & DevOps for data—build the data DevOps stack and IaC processes.
• dbt project administration & standards—own configuration, model architecture, tests, and promotions.
• Platform governance, security & PHI/DLP guardrails—define and enforce data protection standards.
• Reference architecture & standards—define patterns and guardrails adopted by teams.
• Snowflake capability adoption—evaluate and drive adoption of Cortex AI, Horizon, Data Sharing.
• Lead & grow the platform team—build and lead engineering, tooling, and release engineering.
• Enable the AI layer—prepare platform for Cortex AI / Relational AI and safe compute patterns.
• Cost & FinOps stewardship—own platform cost governance and consumption efficiency.

Skills

Snowflake platform architecture

DevOps / CI/CD / IaC

dbt project administration

Platform governance & security

Reference architecture & standards

Snowflake on AWS

Tools

Terraform

Git-based workflows

Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

Zelis is advancing as an AI-native company, with Zelis Data Cloud underpinning analytics and AI. The Director, Data Platforms & Tooling owns Snowflake platform engineering, CI/CD, and governance, delivering a secure, scalable data foundation across data-warehouse, data-lake, and Data Sharing.

You’ll lead a cross-functional team and partner with Security and Compliance on HIPAA/PHI. The role emphasizes architecture, standards, cost governance, and enabling Cortex AI workloads, with a hybrid U.S.