Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Apps

Zeta Global; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Zeta Global is seeking a LeadData Engineer to architect and scale healthcare-focused data systems powering audience intelligence, activation, and reporting. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes privacy, reliability, and compliant design across HCP and DTC workflows.

You will drive data pipelines, identity resolution, and governance across Snowflake, AWS, and healthcare data stores, while mentoring a Senior Data Engineer and coordinating cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of data engineering experience with increasing technical ownership.
• Expert SQL and strong Python, Java; experience with batch and streaming patterns, orchestration, testing, and schema evolution.
• Experience working in regulated environments (healthcare strongly preferred).
• Strong system design and architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the healthcare data architecture, interface contracts, ADRs, schemas, and staged delivery plan.
• Lead ingestion and transformation patterns across Snowflake, Athena/S3, MySQL, and approved healthcare stores without duplicating shared platform capabilities.
• Partner with Data Cloud on source certification, partner-feed contracts, identity validation, raw-zone ownership, and data availability SLAs.
• Design healthcare base/vertical models and published/governed views, with row/member-level controls, account scoping, masking, and backward-compatible versioning.
• Set SLOs and operational readiness criteria; ensure dashboards, alerts, runbooks, rollback paths, and incident ownership are in place before release.
• Lead design and code reviews, mentor the Senior Data Engineer, and coordinate dependencies across the pod.
• Support compliance evidence, annual audits, US data-residency controls, and stoplight decisions: Start, Stop, or Requires CERT.
• Apply privacy-by-design principles across all systems handling PHI/PII
• Partner with Product and Data teams to translate healthcare requirements into scalable architectures
• Drive engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, code quality, and operational excellence

Skills

SQL

Python

Java

System design

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Zeta Global is seeking a LeadData Engineer to architect and scale healthcare-focused data systems powering audience intelligence, activation, and reporting. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes privacy, reliability, and compliant design across HCP and DTC workflows.

You will drive data pipelines, identity resolution, and governance across Snowflake, AWS, and healthcare data stores, while mentoring a Senior Data Engineer and coordinating cross-functional teams.