Staff Data Platform Engineer - Multi-Cloud & AI-Ready

Datavant; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead design and build of the next-generation patient data platform, enabling secure, scalable, multi-tenant data use across cloud environments. This hands-on leadership role blends architecture with deep implementation, shaping how data is processed, validated, and served for analytics, product, and AI-driven use cases in regulated healthcare.

Join Datavant to influence data logistics that empower providers, researchers, and life sciences firms while

Qualifications

• 10+ years building data-intensive distributed systems.
• Experience designing/operating production data platforms.
• AWS or cloud-based data architectures.
• Strong software fundamentals: design, testing, CI/CD, debugging.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive durable technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of core data platform capabilities.
• Design multi-tenant, multi-cloud data systems with isolation, scalability, and durability.
• Build and operate large-scale batch and real-time data processing systems.
• Define data lifecycle: ingestion, validation, transformation, enrichment, and serving.
• Establish data quality gates and validation frameworks for trust and auditability.
• Design systems with CI/CD, deployment orchestration, observability, and automation.
• Make architectural tradeoffs for performance, cost, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead high-impact initiatives with ownership across teams.
• Contribute to production code and set quality standards.

Skills

Distributed data processing

Architectural leadership

Cloud data platforms

Data quality and governance

CI/CD and Infra automation

Production debugging

Multi-tenant design

Python/Scala

Tools

Spark

Flink

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Terraform

Iceberg/Delta

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead design and build of the next-generation patient data platform, enabling secure, scalable, multi-tenant data use across cloud environments. This hands-on leadership role blends architecture with deep implementation, shaping how data is processed, validated, and served for analytics, product, and AI-driven use cases in regulated healthcare.

Join Datavant to influence data logistics that empower providers, researchers, and life sciences firms while