Senior Director - Data Engineering

"Open only for Diversity(Women) Candidates" Primary Responsibilities - Define strategy and outcomes for UHC's data platform, linking business problems and goals to the roadmap - Drive innovation in data management and cloud technologies to support data sharing and reuse - Collaborate with senior leadership to align data platform initiatives with broader organizational objectives - Oversee architecture, design, and implementation of platform capabilities to support consistency, security, interoperability, and quality of data on the platform - Lead complex data platform projects from conception through delivery, ensuring timely and successful completion - Align enterprise architecture direction and solutions with business strategies. - Performs two functions : Outcome based E2E architecture & Platform Capability based strategic architecture - Drive the Data Architecture Review Board, managing intake, documenting decisions and guiding teams to preferred data assets and the target state architecture for analytics and reporting. - Decision maker for the identification/prioritization of solutions from the various options provided by teams, and final recommendation from multiple solution options - Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data engineering, and data security practices - Identify, document and publish architecture and implementation best practices and standards. - Partner with UHC data domain owners and technical owners to understand roadmaps, data use cases and challenges. - Identify areas of reuse and consolidation across data assets, driving towards simplification and cost reduction. - Collaborate with data engineering teams and business consumer to create reusable frameworks to enable federated development and uniformity on analytic and reporting implementations. - Make recommendations around whether to maintain, invest, scale or sunset data assets based on strategy, cost benefit analysis, and usage. - Establish processes for architecture reviews and decision-making to streamline time to decision and enable higher velocity for delivery. - Provide hands-on technical leadership in cloud data technologies - Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing team of data engineers and architects - Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation within the team Required Qualifications : - Bachelor's degree in management information systems, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field (Masters degree preferred) - 12 years experience in data management, data analytics, data engineering, or related field - 10 years healthcare industry experience - Excellent written and verbal communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills. - Proven experience in a leadership role, managing teams and large scale projects - Proven use of Agile methodologies in delivering technology solutions, managing budgets, quality, and timelines to successful completion - Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs, and opportunistic ideas with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively - High attention to detail including ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously - Demonstrated ability to work within a highly regulated environment, preferably healthcare technology. - Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to provide better clarity in defining highly complex problems. Aligns problems to platform opportunities. - Strong analytical, project management and problem-solving skills - Strong understanding of data architecture, data warehousing, ETL, and cloud technologies (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: in, IN

Posted Date: 11/23/2024