Manager, Data Engineering

Central Health; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Health is seeking a Manager of Data Engineering to lead the design, development, and operation of its cloud data platforms and pipelines powering analytics, reporting, data science, AI, and operational insights in Azure/Snowflake.

You will oversee migration from legacy SQL Server to modern cloud data warehouses, define standards, manage a team, and collaborate across analytics, governance, and infrastructure to deliver trustworthy data assets.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years in data engineering, warehousing, or analytics platform development.
• 2+ years in technical and/or people leadership roles.
• 2+ years migrating legacy SQL Server environments to cloud data platforms.
• Experience in healthcare or regulated environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with Snowflake and Azure-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Data Engineering team, including hiring and performance management.
• Set engineering standards, workflows, and development practices for pipelines and models.
• Own the design of analytical data architecture, Snowflake schemas, and data domains.
• Ensure the Snowflake environment is scalable, secure, and compliant.
• Oversee migrations from legacy systems to cloud data platforms and oversee data quality checks.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

ETL/ELT orchestration tools

Job description

Overview

JOB SUMMARY

Under the general direction of Central Health's Director of Data Engineering and Integration Services, the Manager of Data Engineering is responsible for leading the design, development, and operational support of Central Health System’s data platforms and data pipelines that power analytics, reporting, data science, AI, and operational insights. This role manages the ingestion, transformation, modeling, and curation of data within the organization’s modern cloud data environment, with Snowflake on Microsoft Azure as Central Health System’s data platform.

The Manager of Data Engineering plays a critical role in Central Health’s transition from a legacy MS SQL Server– based data warehouse environment to a scalable, cloud-native architecture on Azure and Snowflake. This role focuses on analytical data engineering, data platform architecture, and downstream data enablement, and works in close partnership with the Manager of Data Integration, who owns system-to-system interfaces and interoperability.

**This position is considered Hybrid = Individuals in this position may work both at an approved off-site location and onsite at a primary location or multiple locations based on business needs.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Lead and manage the Data Engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, prioritization, coaching, and performance management.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and development workflows for data pipelines, transformations, and models.
• Partner with the Director of Data Engineering and Integration Services to align roadmaps, capacity planning, and delivery timelines with enterprise priorities.
• Own the design and evolution of Central Health’s analytical data architecture, including Snowflake schemas, data domains, and subject-area models.
• Ensure the Snowflake environment is scalable, performant, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Guide architectural decisions related to data ingestion, transformation layers, semantic models, and consumption patterns.
• Partner with cloud and infrastructure teams to ensure proper configuration of Azure resources supporting data engineering workloads.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of reliable, automated data pipelines that ingest data from integrationmanaged feeds and other sources into Snowflake.
• Ensure pipelines support batch and incremental processing patterns, data freshness requirements, and downstream service-level expectations.
• Establish standards for pipeline orchestration, monitoring, logging, alerting, and recovery.
• Own production support and incident response for data engineering pipelines and platform components.
• Lead data engineering efforts supporting the migration from legacy MS SQL Server–based data warehouses and marts to Snowflake.
• Design and implement migration strategies, including parallel runs, validation, reconciliation, and phased cutovers.
• Ensure continuity of analytics, reporting, and regulatory deliverables during the migration.
• Modernize data models and transformations as part of the migration, avoiding one-for-one legacy replication where possible.
• Oversee the design and maintenance of curated, analytics-ready data models that support clinical, financial, operational, and population health use cases.
• Partner with Data Governance and Data Quality teams to embed data quality checks, lineage, metadata, and documentation into engineering workflows.
• Ensure data engineering practices support regulatory reporting, auditability, and trusted enterprise metrics.
• Ensure data platforms and pipelines reliably support analytics, BI, data science, and AI use cases.
• Partner with analytics and data science teams to understand data requirements, performance needs, and modeling considerations.
• Support feature-ready datasets, historical depth, and refresh cadences required for predictive and generative AI workflows.
• Work closely with the Manager of Data Integration to ensure seamless handoffs between system-to-system integrations and analytical data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Clinical Informatics, Finance, Operations, Security, and Systems Engineering teams to align data engineering deliverables with business needs.
• Clearly delineate ownership boundaries, with the Manager of Data Engineering responsible for analytical data platforms and pipelines, and the Manager of Data Integration responsible for interfaces, interoperability, and operational data exchange.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree (higher degree accepted) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered.

PREFERRED EDUCATION:Master's or higher Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 6 years Experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics platform development.
• 2 years Experience in technical and/or people leadership roles.
• 2 years Experience supporting or leading migrations from legacy SQL Server environments to modern cloud data platforms.
• 2 years Experience working in healthcare or other highly regulated environments.
• 2 years Experience with Snowflake and Microsoft Azure–based data architectures.
• 2 years Experience supporting BI tools, analytics platforms, or data science workloads.
• 2 years Exposure to data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with ELT/ETL orchestration tools andmodern data engineering frameworks.