Staff Data Platform Engineer – Multi-Cloud

Datavant; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and build of a next-generation patient data platform. You will architect distributed data systems, enable secure, scalable data use across multi-tenant environments, and contribute hands-on coding to production systems.

The role emphasizes strong architectural judgment, deep implementation expertise, and collaboration with analytics, product, and AI initiatives in a regulated healthcare context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building data-intensive or distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms in production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, testing, CI/CD, and production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of core data platform capabilities, including processing frameworks, storage patterns, and shared services.
• Design and implement multi-tenant, multi-cloud data systems with strong isolation, scalability, and operational durability.
• Build and operate large-scale distributed data processing systems across batch and real-time workloads.
• Define and evolve data lifecycle patterns, including ingestion, validation, transformation, enrichment, and serving.
• Establish data quality gates and validation frameworks to ensure trust, consistency, and auditability.
• Design systems that integrate with platform infrastructure, including CI/CD, deployment orchestration, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Make sound architectural decisions across performance, cost, reliability, and maintainability tradeoffs.
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives where both problem definition and solution design require ownership.
• Contribute significantly to production code, setting standards for quality, testing, and operability.

Skills

Distributed data processing

Cloud data platforms

Data modeling

CI/CD

Production debugging

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

Iceberg

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and build of a next-generation patient data platform. You will architect distributed data systems, enable secure, scalable data use across multi-tenant environments, and contribute hands-on coding to production systems.

The role emphasizes strong architectural judgment, deep implementation expertise, and collaboration with analytics, product, and AI initiatives in a regulated healthcare context.