Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform

📋 Description

• • **Join Vida Health as a Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform**
• • Vida Health is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare by providing personalized, virtual obesity care. We empower individuals to manage complex conditions like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression through a holistic, evidence-based approach. Our multidisciplinary team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches, and Licensed Therapists collaborates to deliver comprehensive care, fostering weight loss, stress reduction, and overall well-being. By seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technology with exceptional healthcare professionals, Vida is dismantling the obstacles that have historically hindered access to optimal care. Our trusted platform is the backbone for Fortune 100 companies, major national payers, and large providers, enabling their employees to lead healthier lives.
• • We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Data Engineer to take ownership of the reliability, integrity, and scalability of our critical data platform. This pivotal role will be instrumental in shaping how data flows across Vida, from initial ingestion to the delivery of governed, actionable insights. You will be the guardian of the pipelines that fuel our member care, revenue operations, and partner reporting, ensuring unparalleled accuracy, observability, and resilience.
• • *Your Impact and Responsibilities:**
• • **Architect and Build Robust Data Pipelines:** Design, develop, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines that handle high volumes of data from diverse sources. This includes ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data lake solutions.
• • **Ensure Data Integrity and Quality:** Implement rigorous data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring systems to guarantee the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data across the platform. Proactively identify and resolve data discrepancies.
• • **Enhance Data Observability:** Develop and deploy comprehensive monitoring and alerting mechanisms to track pipeline performance, data freshness, and potential issues. Foster a culture of proactive issue detection and resolution.
• • **Drive Platform Reliability and Resilience:** Architect solutions that minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. Implement strategies for disaster recovery, data backup, and performance optimization.
• • **Collaborate Across Teams:** Work closely with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and product managers to understand data requirements, provide data solutions, and support data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• • **Champion Data Governance and Security:** Implement and enforce data governance policies, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and best practices for data security and privacy.
• • **Mentor and Lead:** Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior data engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment. Contribute to the development of best practices and standards within the data engineering function.
• • **Optimize Data Infrastructure:** Continuously evaluate and optimize the performance, cost, and efficiency of our data infrastructure, leveraging cloud-native services and modern data technologies.
• • **Troubleshoot and Resolve Issues:** Investigate and resolve complex data-related issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing permanent solutions.
• • **Contribute to Data Strategy:** Participate in the strategic planning and roadmap development for Vida's data platform, aligning technical solutions with business objectives.
• • **Build Foundational Systems:** Develop the underlying infrastructure that enables engineering teams to ship code with confidence, by creating robust testing frameworks, automated deployment processes, and clear documentation.
• • **Empower Data Consumers:** Ensure that data is accessible, understandable, and reliable for all stakeholders, enabling them to derive maximum value from our data assets.
• • **Stay Ahead of the Curve:** Research and evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies in data engineering to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• • This role is critical to Vida's mission. By ensuring the accuracy and reliability of our data, you will directly contribute to improving patient outcomes, optimizing operational efficiency, and strengthening our partnerships. You will be empowered to make significant technical decisions and shape the future of data at Vida Health.