Senior Forward-Deployed Data & AI Engineer

Vizient, Inc.; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a senior technical leader to design and deliver enterprise data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions for healthcare.

You will guide architecture, set reusable patterns, and partner with client teams to translate clinical and operational needs into scalable data products. You will mentor engineers, drive engineering excellence, ensure security and governance, and accelerate delivery with AI-assisted development while maintaining controls.

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, multi-component technical solutions required.
• Experience with healthcare data, healthcare analytics, or healthcare technology required.
• Advanced expertise in SQL and modern cloud-based data and application development platforms, including Databricks required.
• Experience designing solutions that integrate data platforms, APIs, application layers, visualization tools, and cloud services required.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, large language models, agentic workflows, or related AI technologies strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-level data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Own technical delivery across complex engagements from discovery and solution design through development, deployment, validation, and transition.
• Define reusable architecture patterns, development frameworks, code libraries, integration standards, and engineering best practices.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, observable, and aligned with governance standards.
• Mentor engineers through technical coaching, knowledge sharing, and guidance on complex architecture and development decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Consultative skills

Problem solving

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

Databricks

CI/CD

Job description

Vizient, Inc. seeks a senior technical leader to design and deliver enterprise data, analytics, application, and AI-enabled solutions for healthcare.

You will guide architecture, set reusable patterns, and partner with client teams to translate clinical and operational needs into scalable data products. You will mentor engineers, drive engineering excellence, ensure security and governance, and accelerate delivery with AI-assisted development while maintaining controls.