Lead Data Platform Engineer

Overview

Who We Are

Because health is personal. That's why Personify Health created the first and only personalized health platform—bringing health plan administration, holistic wellbeing solutions, and comprehensive care navigation together in one place. We serve employers, health plans, and health systems with data-driven solutions that reduce costs while actually improving health outcomes. Together, our team is on a mission to empower people to lead healthier lives.

Learn even more about the work that drives us at personifyhealth.com.

Responsibilities

Ready To Architect and Build the Data Platform That Connects Every Product, Pipeline, and AI Initiative at Personify Health?

Why This Role Matters

Data Platform Engineering is a new organization with a clear mandate: make the handoff from product data to analytics insight reliable, governed, and invisible. As Lead Data Platform Engineer, you shape that from the ground up — designing the architecture, setting the standards, and shipping the pipelines that power reporting, AI use cases, and data-driven product features. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll set the direction and still write code.

What You'll Actually Do

Lead platform architecture and delivery: Own the end-to-end data platform — ingestion, lake layout, transformation layers, and serving — continuously improving reliability, performance, and scale.

Design and build large-scale pipelines: Integrate product systems, member and client data, claims and eligibility feeds, and third-party sources into a scalable, well-governed data platform.

Own the open table format layer: Design and maintain the Iceberg or Delta Lake layer — including table design, partitioning, compaction, schema evolution, and long-term maintenance.

Define and enforce governance standards: Build the platform’s governance framework covering data quality, PII/PHI classification and controls, freshness SLAs, and lineage — and hold the broader team to it.

Set engineering standards and orchestration patterns: Establish CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and orchestration standards that the team adopts and operates against.

Define data contracts with product teams: Set standards for how product delivery teams produce data and influence their services to make downstream consumption cleaner and more reliable.

Enable analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives: Partner with analysts and data scientists to operationalize advanced analytics, predictive models, and AI use cases on top of the platform you build.

Lead technically and develop engineers: Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and take point on technical response to major incidents.

Qualifications

What You Bring to Our Team

Education & Experience

• 8+ years in data or software engineering, including 5+ years focused on data platforms or big data
• Demonstrated record of technical leadership across teams
• Extensive production experience designing and scaling data systems that others depend on
• Experience in healthcare, benefits, insurance, or another regulated industry a plus

Technical Skills

• Deep, hands-on expertise in large-scale data transformation including performance tuning and cost optimization
• Expert-level knowledge of open table formats: Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake
• Strong experience architecting and operating data pipelines and data lakes
• Experience designing and rolling out data governance frameworks covering quality, PII/PHI management, access control, and freshness monitoring
• Experience designing orchestration strategy at platform level
• Advanced SQL and strong Python proficiency
• Apache Spark including performance tuning at scale preferred
• Apache Kafka and event-driven architecture experience preferred
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices as data producers preferred
• Exposure to ML operationalization or AI platforms preferred

Our Commitment: Personify Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We cultivate a work environment where differences are celebrated, and employees of all backgrounds are empowered to thrive—because diversity is core to who we are and critical to our work in health and wellbeing.

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