Platform Product Lead, Data Platform & AI Analytics

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated; Clifton (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is seeking a highly technical Product Manager for the Healthcare Analytics Solutions Data Platform. You will define the enterprise‑grade data platform roadmap, architecture, and governance to support business and revenue objectives.

Collaborate across Data Engineering, Solution Delivery, and IT to build secure, scalable data pipelines and semantic layers supporting real‑time processing and GenAI analytics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product management experience in data platforms, data engineering, or advanced analytics technology.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience as a Data Analyst, Data Engineer, or in a highly technical role directly writing queries, modeling data, and testing pipelines.
• Proven experience managing platform products through the software development lifecycle, including writing technical specifications, system architecture design, API definitions, and agile backlog management.

Responsibilities

• Define, architect, and manage the data platform strategy, data contracts, and technical roadmap.
• Drive detailed technical requirements for data architecture, data modeling, and automated integration pipelines (ETL/ELT and streaming).
• Establish and monitor platform performance metrics, including SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for data freshness and uptime.
• Serve as the technical liaison between business needs and IT engineering, translating objectives into technical specs, API definitions, and schemas.
• Define and enforce Data Contracts to ensure schema stability and prevent upstream changes from disrupting downstream products.
• Design automated, low-latency ingestion pipelines and evaluate partition strategies for batch and streaming architectures.
• Implement automated Data Observability for data quality, schema drift, and lineage in production.
• Perform hands‑on data profiling, complex SQL querying, query optimization, and EDA to validate datasets.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Scala

API design

Data modeling

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's in Data Science (preferred)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

GitHub

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is seeking a highly technical Product Manager for the Healthcare Analytics Solutions Data Platform. You will define the enterprise‑grade data platform roadmap, architecture, and governance to support business and revenue objectives.

Collaborate across Data Engineering, Solution Delivery, and IT to build secure, scalable data pipelines and semantic layers supporting real‑time processing and GenAI analytics.