Principal Data Engineer - Platform & AI Pipelines

Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the data platform engineering function, defining standards and driving scalable data solutions across clinical, operational, and financial domains.

You will mentor engineers, architect high-performance data pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver audit-ready healthcare data products.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and governing enterprise data platforms at scale.
• Proven track record with real-time and batch data processing pipelines.
• Healthcare data standards and HIPAA/GDPR awareness.

Responsibilities

• Set platform engineering standards and guardrails for data systems.
• Design scalable data processing frameworks for claims, risk adjustment, and member data.
• Lead integration of AI/ML into production data pipelines and ensure data quality.

Skills

Kafka

Databricks

Apache Spark

Azure

AWS

GCP

Python

Scala

Java

HL7/FHIR

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Alignment Health is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the data platform engineering function, defining standards and driving scalable data solutions across clinical, operational, and financial domains.

You will mentor engineers, architect high-performance data pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver audit-ready healthcare data products.