Head of Analytics Engineering — Enterprise Data & AI

The Briefed; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

11 paid holidays

Premium health insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Oscar Health is seeking a Director of Analytics Engineering to set the enterprise strategy for trusted, governed data products. You will lead a multi-team organization of analytics engineering managers and senior contributors to transform data practices, governance, and cloud platforms.

You will establish production-grade engineering standards, drive self-service analytics, and enable AI workflows while ensuring data lineage, security, and cost efficiency across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or quantitative technical architecture.
• 5+ years of direct leadership experience managing multi-team data or engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the enterprise analytics engineering operating plan, building scalable strategies that make reliable, reusable data products accessible across the company.
• Build and govern the enterprise transformation layer (dbt, Looker) to ensure data quality, clear lineage, standardized metrics, and secure, role-based access.
• Establish production-grade software engineering practices, testing protocols, data observability standards, and incident response procedures for core data products.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing organization of analytics engineering managers and senior technical talent, defining career growth paths and organizational structure.
• Partner with business, engineering, and executive stakeholders to align data investments, communicate risks, and report on operating metrics during quarterly business reviews.
• Expand company-wide self-service analytics adoption while structuring governed data layers to feed downstream machine learning models and Generative AI applications.
• Measure and continuously improve data trust, pipeline reliability, delivery velocity, query performance, and cloud data platform spending efficiency.

Skills

SQL

Leadership

Data governance

Analytics strategy

Tools

dbt

Looker

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

Oscar Health is seeking a Director of Analytics Engineering to set the enterprise strategy for trusted, governed data products. You will lead a multi-team organization of analytics engineering managers and senior contributors to transform data practices, governance, and cloud platforms.

You will establish production-grade engineering standards, drive self-service analytics, and enable AI workflows while ensuring data lineage, security, and cost efficiency across the organization.