Director, Data Platforms and Tooling
Core
Own the engineering layer of the Zelis Data Cloud (ZDC), providing a production-grade, secure, scalable Snowflake platform foundation for analytics, AI, and agentic engineering.
Role type
Director, Data Platforms & Tooling (Builder-Leader)
Builds
Snowflake data warehouse/lake platform, CI/CD pipelines, and governance tooling for healthcare data
Domain
Healthcare technology / Cloud Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Snowflake platform architecture, DevOps/CI/CD for data, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), dbt administration, Platform governance & security, AWS cloud services, Team leadership
Preferred skills
Healthcare data (HIPAA/PHI), AI/ML platform preparation, Medallion architecture, OpenFlow ingestion
Technologies
Snowflake, AWS (S3), Terraform, dbt, Vault, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake Horizon
Responsibilities
Design platform architecture and roadmap for data-warehouse and data-lake use cases; build and own the data DevOps stack including version control and release discipline; enforce dbt project standards and model promotion workflows; set and enforce governance, security, and PHI/DLP guardrails; define reference architecture and standards for other teams; drive adoption of emerging Snowflake features; lead and grow the platform engineering team; enable the platform for AI/Relational AI workloads; steward platform-level cost and consumption efficiency
Seniority
Director, Engineering Leadership