Director of Data Engineering & Management - AI-Ready

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

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.