Director Enterprise Data Platform

Surescripts; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 216,200 - 264,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

Generous paid time off

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Surescripts is seeking a Director Enterprise Data Platform to lead the medallion data lake initiative and drive end-to-end data reliability across the platform. You will guide a data engineering team, set technical direction, and own data quality and governance as part of a strategic data foundation.

This leadership role focuses on building scalable pipelines on Google Cloud, defining contracts with source owners, and collaborating with Architecture and Analytics teams to deliver trusted data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, cloud engineering, data infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams responsible for large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the medallion data lake. Own Raw, Silver, and Gold layers on Google BigQuery, with defined data ingestion, conformance, cleansing and accessibility.
• Hands-On with a high-performing data engineering team; foster data quality, test coverage, and documentation.
• Own source system onboarding; enforce data contracts and scalable ingestion pipelines.
• Define and meet data SLAs; build observability and alerting to prevent impact on consumers.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Semantic Intelligence to align with canonical data models.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms

BigQuery / GCP

Data lake design

Data contracts & SLAs

Observability & CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree

Tools

Airflow

Terraform

Looker

BigQuery

Job description

Job Summary

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

The Director Enterprise Data Platform leads one of the foundational teams within the Enterprise Data Platform organization. This is a senior engineering and delivery leadership role responsible for designing, building, and operating the medallion data lake that serves as the trusted data foundation for Surescripts' entire data product ecosystem.

The Enterprise Data Platform team owns the end‑to‑end data pipeline infrastructure, from source system ingestion through raw, silver, and gold layers, delivering clean, timely, and reliable data to internal consumers, external partners, and machine and AI‑based systems. This team is the reason every downstream data product can be trusted.

The Director will lead a team of data engineers, set the technical direction for how data moves and transforms across the platform, and serve as the primary owner of data reliability and pipeline health at Surescripts. This role will operate as a peer to the leads of Data Product Delivery, Architecture and Semantic Intelligence, Platform Engineering, and Trust & Enablement, and will report directly to the VP of Enterprise Data Platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the medallion data lake. Own the full medallion architecture – Raw, Silver, and Gold layers – on Google BigQuery. Define standards for how data is ingested, conformed, cleansed, and made available for downstream consumption. Ensure every layer is reliable, documented, and governed.
• Hands‑On with a high‑performing data engineering team. Develop and retain data engineers with deep expertise in cloud data platforms, pipeline development, and data modeling. Foster a culture of engineering rigor – where data quality, test coverage, and documentation are treated as first‑class deliverables alongside throughput.
• Own source system onboarding. Drive the strategy and execution for integrating new source systems into the data fabric. Define and enforce data contracts with upstream source owners. Ensure ingestion pipelines are resilient, observable, and built to scale.
• Define and meet data SLAs. Establish and own SLA commitments for data freshness, completeness, and availability across all critical data domains. Build the observability and alerting infrastructure to detect and resolve pipeline failures before they impact downstream consumers or data products.
• Partner with Architecture and Semantic Intelligence. Work closely with the Architecture team to ensure the Gold layer is built to canonical data model specifications rather than product‑specific one‑offs. The Enterprise Data Platform team executes against architecture‑approved designs – enforcing the platform's semantic gate and preventing technical debt accumulation.
• Drive cost efficiency. Own BigQuery compute and storage cost management for the data fabric. Identify optimization opportunities – query efficiency, partitioning strategy, materialised view usage – and implement a continuous improvement practice around platform economics.
• Contribute to platform strategy. Participate as a senior leader in the Enterprise Data Platform leadership team. Bring the perspective of the data foundation into roadmap planning, organisational decisions, and executive reporting through the VP of Enterprise Data Platform.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, cloud engineering, data infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams responsible for large‑scale enterprise platforms.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud‑native platforms, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience designing and implementing medallion or multi‑layer data lake architectures (Raw/Bronze, Silver, Gold) at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise with modern engineering practices including infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, observability, automation, resiliency engineering, and platform operations.
• Strong command of SQL‑based transformation patterns, pipeline orchestration (cloud composer / Airflow or equivalent).
• Experience defining and enforcing data contracts, SLAs, and quality standards across complex, multi‑source data environments.
• Experience implementing platform security controls, identity integration, tokenisation, secrets management, and secure data access patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through large‑scale platform modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, analytics, architecture, and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, business administration, or related field.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with modern data platform technologies including BigQuery, Airflow, Looker, Terraform, and observability platforms.
• Experience implementing platform capabilities supporting synthetic data, data observability, metadata management, and data trust frameworks.

Keywords: medallion data lake, BigQuery, enterprise data platform.

Work Environment

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilising our offices as collaboration centres. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surescripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programmes or work‑study programmes through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F‑1/CPT or F‑1/STEM.

Why Wait? Apply Now

We're a midsize company. This means you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way.

We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.

At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $216,200 – $264,200 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative‑action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state or local law.