Job Description
### Company Overview
Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Our mission is to make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable, providing critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem.
### Role Overview
As a **Staff Data Engineer** at Datavant, you will lead the design and build of our next-generation patient data platform. This hands-on technical leadership role requires a software-oriented data engineer with strong architectural judgment and deep implementation expertise. You will define how complex data is processed, validated, and served, supporting analytics, product, and AI-driven use cases in a regulated environment.
### Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and development of core data platform capabilities, including processing frameworks and storage patterns.
- Design and implement multi-tenant, multi-cloud data systems with strong isolation and scalability.
- Build and operate large-scale distributed data processing systems across batch and real-time workloads.
- Establish data quality gates and validation frameworks to ensure trust and consistency.
- Contribute significantly to production code, setting standards for quality and operability.
### Technical Experience
Strong candidates will have experience with:
- Distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink)
- Cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake)
- Data transformation and modeling frameworks (e.g., dbt)
- Workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Airflow)
- Streaming and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform)
### What You Need to Succeed
- 10+ years of experience building data-intensive or distributed systems.