Lead Data Engineer

Full Time - Remote, United States

Join the Future of Healthcare Recruitment at Vivian Health

Vivian Health empowers every healthcare professional to find their perfect job faster and easier than ever before. As the largest healthcare jobs marketplace, we support over 2 million clinicians in finding their next career opportunities. Our AI-driven platform also enhances process efficiencies for staffing agencies and healthcare employers, significantly reducing time to hire.

Vivian Health is backed by world-class investors, including Thoma Bravo and IAC, with over $75 million in capital raised. Our accolades include BuiltIn’s awards for “Fully Remote Best Startup,” “Fully Remote Best Places to Work,” and “U.S. Best Startups to Work For” in 2024.

About the team:

Vivian Health is a remote-first company at the forefront of transforming the healthcare staffing landscape. The Data Team plays a critical role in providing insights that drive business strategy and empower data-driven decision making across the organization. Our team is a centralized group of talented data professionals, with experience across BI and analytics, engineering, data science, and machine learning. We are looking for a technical leader to help guide the team and shape the future of our data platform.

What you’ll do:

As Lead Data Engineer you will set the technical direction for the data engineering team and own the strategy, maintenance, and operations of our data platform. You’ll lead a team of data engineers while staying hands-on with architecture decisions and technical leadership. A key focus will be maintaining and building feature stores and ML infrastructure to power our machine learning models, enabling personalized experiences for millions of healthcare professionals.

What we’re looking for: 

We’re looking for a technical leader who combines deep data engineering expertise with the ability to mentor, coach, and grow a high-performing team. Ideally, you bring:

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering or software engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership or management role
• Proven experience designing and operating data platforms at scale
• Strong experience with Python and SQL
• Deep expertise with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Experience building and maintaining feature stores and ML infrastructure
• Knowledge of AWS technologies like DynamoDB, Lambda, SageMaker, and Kinesis
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with Airflow, DBT, and data orchestration best practices
• Hands-on experience with streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
• Track record of mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders

Your First Year at Vivian

Within one month, you’ll

• Have onboarded with the team and developed a deep understanding of our current data architecture
• Complete 1:1s with all data team members and key stakeholders across the organization
• Identify quick wins for platform reliability and operational improvements

Within three months, you’ll

• Own the data platform roadmap and have alignment with engineering and product leadership
• Implement improved monitoring, alerting, and observability for data pipelines
• Begin design and architecture work for the feature store initiative

Within six months, you’ll

• Have launched the first iteration of our feature store, enabling ML teams to access curated features
• Establish best practices for data quality, testing, and documentation across the team
• Drive tech stack decisions for real-time data infrastructure

Within a year, you’ll

• Have built a robust, scalable data platform that serves as the foundation for all analytics and ML initiatives
• Power real-time feature pipelines that enable personalized experiences for millions of users
• Have grown and developed a high-performing data engineering team

What we provide: (Benefits & Perks)

The range for this position is $190,000 - $220,000 yearly salary plus equity, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This range is based on a full-time schedule. Unfortunately we are not able to offer any visa support at this time.

At Vivian Health, we offer a competitive compensation package, with benefits including:

• Flexible Time Off
• Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, including HSA and FSA Options
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan with Generous Employer Match
• Generous Parental Leave
• Work-from-home stipend
• Access to Corporate Discount Program
• Pet Insurance