Director, Healthcare Data Engineering & Analytics

Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC in; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health is seeking a Director of Data Engineering Analysis to lead end‑to‑end data requirements and drive trusted analytics across our Medicare Advantage platform. This hands‑on leadership role partners with operational, clinical, actuarial, and technology stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and timely insights.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in data analysis or data management, with 3+ years in leadership, and strong experience in healthcare data standards, data quality, and cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Health Informatics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in data analysis, data operations, or data management roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior contributor capacity.
• Healthcare payer/Medicare Advantage data domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Requirements & Stakeholder Analysis — Partner with operational, analytical, and platform stakeholders to define end‑to‑end data requirements.
• Drive Data Quality & Continuous Improvement — Implement data quality rules and remediation workflows across health plan data domains.
• Own Data Operations & Issue Resolution — Triage and resolve Data Ops issues affecting production outputs.
• Apply Healthcare Data Standards & Interoperability — Ensure data interoperability across systems and partners (X12, HL7, FHIR).
• Evaluate Data Sources for Completeness & Fitness — Assess data sources for quality and coverage to support multiple use cases.
• Enable the Data Platform — Support scalable analytics with cloud data platforms and automation.
• Develop and Mentor the Data Analysis Team — Foster analytical rigor and continuous learning.

Skills

Data analysis

Data ops

Stakeholder analysis

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Data quality

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/DS/Health Informatics

Master's preferred

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Alignment Health is seeking a Director of Data Engineering Analysis to lead end‑to‑end data requirements and drive trusted analytics across our Medicare Advantage platform. This hands‑on leadership role partners with operational, clinical, actuarial, and technology stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and timely insights.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in data analysis or data management, with 3+ years in leadership, and strong experience in healthcare data standards, data quality, and cloud