Director, Data Engineering

About us

TeleTracking began with a simple but powerful belief that no one should wait for the care they need. More than a slogan, it’s a promise to continually improve healthcare.

TeleTracking builds groundbreaking technology incorporating deep clinical expertise. Our solutions are used in the nation’s largest healthcare systems and around the world to positively impact patients, families and communities.

What’s your contribution to the TeleTracking story?

When you choose to bring your passion and skills to help achieve our purpose, you’ll be part of a team that understands that there’s a human life behind every data point.   Your skills, curiosity, and compassion—will help fuel our innovation and achieve the TeleTracking promise of revolutionizing modern healthcare. 

About the role

The Director of Data Engineering is responsible for defining and executing the long-term technical strategy of the enterprise data platform while ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable day-to-day operations. This role combines deep technical leadership, architecture ownership, client engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and team management.

What you will do

Architecture & Delivery Oversight

• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of data pipelines, platform enhancements, and large-scale data solutions.
• Review engineering designs, remove technical blockers, and lead architectural decision-making.
• Ensure all technical solutions support scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-efficient operations.

Strategy & Platform Architecture

• Define the long-term data platform vision, including data lake/warehouse strategy, governance frameworks, data modeling, and technology tooling.
• Drive strategic alignment between platform architecture and organizational goals.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards ensuring consistency and future platform growth.

Technical Leadership

• Own the overall technical strategy while managing critical operational priorities.
• Define and approve technical and behavioral acceptance criteria.
• Participate in client VOC discussions to gather requirements.
• Lead architecture and system design reviews.
• Guide engineering best practices.
• Drive cloud cost-optimization efforts.
• Partner with business leaders to define ROI and platform investment impact.
• Develop and manage budget for the department, including employee, contractor and cloud spending.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with product, analytics, ML, engineering, and executive leadership.
• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Influence roadmap prioritization based on business and technical needs.
• Participates in focused technical discussions with key clients.

Vendor Management

• Act as a technical and business liaison with vendors.

Operations, Governance & Optimization

• Ensure platform reliability, data quality, observability, and compliance.
• Lead governance activities including audits and access reviews.
• Serve as the ISO audit point of contact.

People Leadership & Team Management

• Hire, mentor, and develop data engineering talent.
• Establish performance expectations and foster a culture of quality and accountability.

What we look for

• 7 + years of experience in data architecture, cloud-based data infrastructure, distributed systems, and building reliable data pipelines that support analytics and AI/ML workloads.
• Strong expertise in data architecture, cloud data platforms, and building scalable data pipelines using technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, or Spark.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines.
• Proven engineering leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience aligning data strategy with business outcomes.
• Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare or education. (preferred)
• Background in cloud cost optimization and platform modernization. (preferred)

Education

• Bachelor's in computer science, computer information or any related discipline with equivalent combination of work and experience. (required)
• Master's in computer science, computer information or any related discipline (preferred)

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision plans 100% paid for employees and family members without coverage, which start from day one!
• Life and AD&D
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Medical, Dependent Care, and Transportation
• 401 (k) Retirement Savings
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Military Paid Leave (up to 6 months of base salary while on military leave)
• Paid Time Off
• Paid parental leave

Disclaimer:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The term "qualified individual with a disability" means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position.

TeleTracking is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. TeleTracking recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.

Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.