Job Overview
Location
Work From Anywhere-India
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
April 24, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Principal Data Engineer defines the long-term technical vision and enterprise architecture for data platforms supporting analytics, AI/ML, and regulated healthcare systems, serving as the highest-level technical authority in data engineering.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include defining enterprise-wide data architecture and long-term technical roadmap, leading large-scale modernization and transformation initiatives, establishing governance frameworks for data architecture, scalability, and compliance, and partnering with executive leadership to align data platform strategy with business objectives.
- • The role operates within NextGen Healthcare, a company focused on healthcare technology solutions, where the engineer represents data engineering strategy in executive and cross-functional forums and mentors Senior Staff engineers to shape technical career standards.
- • In this role, the individual can drive innovation while balancing risk, compliance, and operational stability, make final architectural decisions on critical data platform investments, and lead transformation across multiple engineering domains to influence organizational decision-making at the highest level.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- • 15+ years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise data systems, including leadership of organization-wide technical strategy.
- • Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, large-scale distributed systems and streaming architectures, AI/ML data ecosystem design, and healthcare regulatory and governance environments.
- • Skill in enterprise technical strategy development, executive-level communication, complex systems evaluation and modernization, and cross-organizational influence.
- • Ability to set enterprise technical direction, influence executive and organizational decision-making, lead transformation across multiple engineering domains, and balance innovation with long-term sustainability.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to serve as the highest-level technical authority in data engineering with enterprise-wide impact.
- • Leadership role in shaping technical career standards and mentoring Senior Staff engineers.
- • Influence over executive decision-making and cross-organizational alignment on data platform strategy.
- • Work From Anywhere-India flexibility, enabling remote work from any location within India.
- • Engagement in innovation-driven initiatives while ensuring compliance and operational stability in regulated healthcare systems.
Skills & Technologies
About NextGen Healthcare, Inc.
NextGen Healthcare, Inc. provides cloud-based electronic health record, practice management, revenue-cycle and interoperability software to ambulatory medical practices. Founded in 1976, the company serves more than 100,000 providers in the United States. Its integrated platform supports clinical, administrative and analytics workflows for specialties including family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, orthopedics and behavioral health. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, NextGen also offers patient-engagement, population-health and managed-services solutions, helping independent physicians and health systems improve outcomes, reduce administrative burden and meet regulatory requirements.
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